US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 29 for "Confirming physical possession of plastic NFC cards with a mobile digital wallet application" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,821, issued on July 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Confirming physical possession of plastic NFC cards with a mobile digital wallet application" was invented by Justin Lee Brickell (San Francisco) and Max Christoff (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, an issuer system receives payment card information from a payment processing system, wherein the payment card information is received from a payment card via a user computing device using near field communication. The issuer system generates an unpredictable number for the payment card and communicates the unpredictable num...