US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Sept. 15 for "Privacy-preserving identity attribute verification using policy tokens" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,121, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Privacy-preserving identity attribute verification using policy tokens" was invented by Kim Ritter Wagner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sunpreet Singh Arora (Union City, Calif.), Gaven James Watson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mihai Christodorescu (Belmont, Calif.) and Shashank Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for privacy-preserving identity attribute verification are presented. During an interaction between a relying entity and a user, a relying entity computer can transmit a policy token to a user device. T...