ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,149, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Searchable secure treatment for credit card numbers" was invented by Yossi Barshishat (Pardes-Hana, Israel), Margarita Vald (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Liora Braunstein (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yaron Yehuda Karni (Revava, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to creating a secure representation of a credit card number for fraud detection purposes. Embodiments include selecting a first set of digits of a credit card number, wherein the first set of digits comprises one or more digits of a prefix of the credit card number. E...