ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,694, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Royal Bank of Canada (Toronto).

"Protocol and gateway for communicating secure transaction data" was invented by Edison U. Ortiz (Orlando, Fla.), Arnold Badal-Badalian (Toronto), Ming Li Liu (Toronto) and Ravi Khandavilli (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for secure communication of data packets are described using a communications gateway and protocol. One or more payment generator devices utilize trusted execution environments to store identity attestation parameters which are then utilized during registration and/or validation of device identity at the gatew...