ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,409, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Amadeus S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Distributed tokenization authentication" was invented by Roman Bayon (Antibes, France) and Richard Beuvot (Mougins, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a tokenization authentication process. A node receives an encrypted token comprising a first set of sensitive data. The encrypted token was generated by a randomization service based on a mapping structure. A second set of sensitive data is determined using a detokenization process based on the encrypted token. A rebuilt token is generated using a retokenization process based on...