ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,032, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ID-TX Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Virtual-to-physical secure remote payment to a physical location" was invented by Amitaabh Malhotra (San Carlos, Calif.), Laura Ann Torbett Giddings (Los Gatos, Calif.), Mohammad Anwar Khan (San Jose, Calif.), Ashok Narasimhan (San Francisco), Aiko Nishida (Belmont, Calif.), Robert Jay Berger (Saratoga, Calif.) and Sriram Krishnan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating virtual-to-physical secure remote payment to a physical location is described. In an embodiment, a transaction bridge server receives, from a merchant computing device o...