ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,060, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fiserv Inc. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Card attachment system and method" was invented by Joel Harris (Missouri Valley, Iowa), Ray Stuck (Omaha, Neb.), Jon Gates (Honey Creek, Iowa), Corey Dean Tunink (Blair, Neb.) and Jay E. Greene III (Bellevue, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a gantry including an arm configured to affix a transaction card to a card carrier, a conveyor configured to convey the card carrier to the gantry in a first direction, and a controller configured to receive inputs comprising at least a desired location on the card carrier where the transaction ...