ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,613, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for whitebox device binding" was invented by Shashank Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Estuardo Alpirez Bock (San Francisco), Yilei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Gaven James Watson (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A back-end server computer comprises a processor and computer-readable medium that comprises code executable by the processor for implementing the following method. The back-end server computer obtains a message comprising content to provide to an application installed on a user device. The back-end...