ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,212, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Crypto-material management for tokenization" was invented by Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.), Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.), Kevin Boutarel (Ashburn, Va.), Andrei-Bogdan Lucescu (Magnolia, Texas) and Sunil Phutela (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for crypto-material life-cycle management for tokenization and/or encryption. A computing device may generate cryptographic material comprising one or more blobs. Each of the blobs may be usable for encryption and/or tokenization for different field types a...