ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,642, issued on May 5, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for device case detection for adaptive near field communication" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of systems and methods for adaptive near field communication include receiving, by an application comprising instructions for execution on a client device, data indicating a type of device from the client device and performing, by the application, at least one selected from the group of an explicit detection process and an implicit dete...