ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,758, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).
"Mobile application integration" was invented by Philippe Martin (San Jose, Calif.), Marc Kekicheff (Foster City, Calif.) and Yuexi Chen (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling transaction processing utilizing a single device. A mobile device can store an application comprising first and second software modules. One module may execute acceptance processing while another software module may emulate a transaction device associated with a user. One or more identifiers (e.g., QR codes,...