ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,334, issued on July 21, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Application integrity verification by SDK" was invented by Yuexi Chen (Foster City, Calif.) and John Markh (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed and includes executing an integrated application comprising an SDK (software development kit) on a user device with a processor. The method includes determining, by the SDK and the processor on the user device, an checksum for the integrated application, validating, by the SDK in the user device, the integrated application using the determined checksum, and respons...