ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,264, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Edison Vault LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Integrating mobile payment application with other mobile applications while preventing security exposures" was invented by Todd E. Kaplinger (Raleigh, N.C.), Gal Shachor (Yokneam, Israel) and Gregory L. Truty (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer program product for integrating a mobile payment application with other mobile applications while preventing security exposures. A set of application programming interfaces of mobile applications that may possibly be utilized by a pass created by a mobile payment application is g...