ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,698, issued on May 26, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Systems, methods, and computer program products for automatically selecting a card for contactless payment" was invented by Deepak Irukula (Nizamabad, India), Vinod Kumar Pinniboyina (Bangaluru, India) and Habeeb Shaik Khadar (Chittoor, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for automatically selecting one of a plurality of payment cards for contactless payment. The method may include receiving, by a first priority input circuit of a first payment card of a plurality of payment cards, a priority adjusting input from a use...