US Patent Issued to STRIPE on June 24 for "System and method to protect privacy of personal-identification-number entry on consumer mobile device and computing apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,369, issued on June 24, was assigned to STRIPE INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"System and method to protect privacy of personal-identification-number entry on consumer mobile device and computing apparatus" was invented by Chi Wah Lo (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong), Hwai Sian Tsai (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong) and Namson Kwok (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for accepting the input of a PIN comprises a first device receiving a randomized PIN layout derived on a fourth device. The randomized PIN layout is displayed on a display of the first device. A second device comprises an input for accepting a series of key pres...