US Patent Issued to Worldpay on Sept. 15 for "Methods and systems for secure authentication in a virtual or augmented reality environment" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,936, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Worldpay LLC (Symmes Township, Ohio).

"Methods and systems for secure authentication in a virtual or augmented reality environment" was invented by Charlotte Spender (Tonbridge, Great Britain) and Daren L. Pickering (Rugby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a virtual reality payment authentication entry interface includes receiving, over a computer network, a request for payment authorization; identifying a virtual reality interface; generating a plurality of payment authentication characters in the virtual reality interface; receiving user input associated w...