US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Oct. 27 for "Selective unlocking of a physical card to restrict unauthorized access" (Virginia, New York, Oregon, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,931, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Selective unlocking of a physical card to restrict unauthorized access" was invented by Jacob Fishman (McLean, Va.), Anthony Calderaro (Vienna, Va.), Sriram Kiran Tanikella (Ashburn, Va.), Gaurav Ramesh Dixit (Vienna, Va.), Nancy Che (New York), Karly Brusie (Woodbridge, Va.), Brady Olson (Portland, Ore.), Cody Hornberger (Woodbridge, Va.) and Collin Fingar (Wood Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive, from a user device, a request to activate a physical card. The request may indicate information relating...