US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for virtual certification number generation" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,164, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for virtual certification number generation" was invented by Kelly Jo Brown (Rockville, Md.), Jesse Emery (Arlington, Va.), Jonathan Blocksom (Reston, Va.), Swapna Mandala (Glen Allen, Va.), Todd Safford (Bethesda, Md.), Victoria Yang (Fairfax, Va.), Brian Glowniak (Arlington, Va.), Edward Husa (Manassas, Va.), Calvin Sun (Fairfax, Va.) and Audrey Zhang (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for triggering a virtual certification number (VCN) generation for use at a source include receiving a VCN generation...