US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Sept. 29 for "System, method, and computer program product for sensitive data obfuscation on a captured credential" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,336, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"System, method, and computer program product for sensitive data obfuscation on a captured credential" was invented by Gavin Shenker (Los Angeles) and Douglas Deibert (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for obfuscating a captured credential's sensitive data. The method includes detecting, localizing, bounding, and outputting an image of the credential with the sensitive data obfuscated so that it is not human or machine readable during capture...