US Patent Issued to Visa Europe on June 9 for "Transaction messaging" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,255, issued on June 9, was assigned to Visa Europe Ltd. (London).

"Transaction messaging" was invented by Brian Sullivan (Buckinghamshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a method for transmitting a transaction message from a transaction device having a transaction device identifier. The method involves encrypting, at a transaction device, a transaction device identifier, generating, at the transaction device, a transaction message for a transaction system, the transaction message including, at least, a first data field configured to hold a transaction device identifier and a second data field configure...