ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,188, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Seamless interaction processing with data security" was invented by Abhishek Abhyankar (Kirkland, Wash.) and Parag Chaudhari (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes receiving an invoice from a recipient computer, the invoice providing details regarding goods and/or services purchased by a requestor operating a requestor computer, and an amount associated with the goods and/or services. The method also includes receiving an instruction including a requestor identifier and a recipient identifier from...