MUMBAI, India, May 16 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517039271 A) filed by Giesecke+Devrient Epayments GmbH, Munchen, Germany, on April 23, for 'access provisions for virtual cards.'

Inventor(s) include Ramchand, Shawn.

The application for the patent was published on May 16, under issue no. 20/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method and a card management system for providing access to a virtual card, VC, the VC being issued to a user by a card issuer. The card management system comprises an API management gateway and a virtual card, VC, handler. The VC handler is configured to receive through the API management gateway a...