US Patent Issued to Entrust on May 26 for "Integrated digital and physical card issuance processes" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,697, issued on May 26, was assigned to Entrust Corp. (Shakopee, Minn.).

"Integrated digital and physical card issuance processes" was invented by Nicolas Bruley (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for integrating physical payment card and digital payment card issuance is provided. In example aspects, data flows for physical payment card creation are enhanced by adding digital payment card enrollment procedures that may be performed in association with issuance of the physical payment card, thereby allowing a mobile application to utilize a digital version of the physical payment card via coordination with a digitization se...