ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,135, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Techniques to utilize resource locators by a contactless card to perform a sequence of operations" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Kaitlin Newman (Washington), Colin Hart (Arlington, Va.) and Kevin Osborn (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments may be generally directed to methods, techniques and devices to utilize a contactless card to perform a series of operations."

The patent was filed on Oct. 31, 2023, under Application No. 18/498,372.

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