ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,766, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Tokenizing transactions using supplemental data" was invented by Andreas Aabye (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a resource provider computer, a token request message comprising a credential, after a user provides the credential to the resource provider computer. The method also includes transmitting, to the resource provider computer, a token response message comprising one or more supplemental data identifiers and one or more tokens associated with the one or mor...