US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on April 7 for "System, method, and computer program product for authenticating a transaction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,029, issued on April 7, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"System, method, and computer program product for authenticating a transaction" was invented by Venkata Naga Pradeep Kumar Kaja (Foster City, Calif.) and Vijayaraju Konkathi (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a computer-implemented method for authenticating a transaction. The method includes associating, in at least one database, a plurality of voice identifiers with a plurality of users, each voice identifier of the plurality of voice identifiers corresponding to a user having at least one account identifier, r...