ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,658, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"Executing entity-specific cryptographic code in a cryptographic" was invented by Wael Ibrahim (San Diego), Manish K. Deliwala (Chandler, Ariz.), Manik Biswas (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Subrahmanyam Venakata Vishnuvajhala (Phoenix) and Andrew Lei (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for executing entity-specific cryptographic code in a cryptographic coprocessor. In one embodiment, an exemplary method comprises transmitting, from an entity service to a client device, a key identifier and...