ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,189, issued on July 14, was assigned to TRUIST BANK (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Selective visual display by near-field communication (NFC)" was invented by Ryan Thomas Loesch (Cumming, Ga.) and Muthukumar Gopalakrishnan (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A near-field communication (NFC) system for selective visual display includes a computing system, a network connection for operatively connecting devices to the computing system, a first proximity sensing terminal sending an embedded-data signal to the computing system via the network connection upon sensing a registration device by near-field communication, the signal conveying id...