ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,125, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).
"Alias directory" was invented by Evgeny Kozlov (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Srinivas Vadhri (San Ramon, Calif.), Alexey Oreshin (Singapore), Swapnil Vasant Mhasde (Singapore), Vadim Grevtsov (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) and Harsha Sathyanarayana Naga (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed and includes receiving an alias resolve request message comprising an alias from a transfer server, and then transmitting the alias resolve request message comprising the alias to plurality of mapping computers...