ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,441, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"System and method for payment hardware system module (HSM) integration" was invented by Dhanalakshmi Saravanan (Bangalore, India), Ganeswara Rao Karri (Hyderabad, India) and Rajeshekhar Murtinty (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and corresponding method integrate a payment application and at least one payment hardware system module (HSM). The system comprises a payment system interface (PSI) interposed between a payment application and at least one payment hardware system module (HSM). The PSI implements a standard, payment HSM appli...