US Patent Issued to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE on Aug. 11 for "System and method for secure transmission of credit card data through token generation" (Illinois, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,610, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE (Bloomington, Ill.).

"System and method for secure transmission of credit card data through token generation" was invented by Ryan Chambers (Bloomington, Ill.), Anthony Martin (Pekin, Ill.) and Dana R. Guild (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system may provide a secure credit card payment service which allows a merchant to store credit cards without storing credit card data on merchant servers. The customer, via a web-enabled device, transmits a request to register a credit card and receives from the merchant server, a credit car...