US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Aug. 25 for "Virtual access credential interaction system and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,680, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Virtual access credential interaction system and method" was invented by Gilles Verstraeten (London), Pedro Sousa (London), Mark Pettit (London) and Prarthana Mitra (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes an authorizing entity computer receiving a request for a virtual access credential from a communication device operated by a user. The authorizing entity computer can then transmit the virtual access credential to the communication device operated by the user. The authorizing entity computer can then receive an authoriza...