ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,474, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).
"Embedded payment tokens in digital media objects" was invented by Animikh Sen (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A token specifying a payment account is issued to a party to which payments are to be made and the token is installed in a specially configured camera. Whenever a photograph is captured by the camera, a copy of the token, among other things, is embedded in the photograph's metadata. The metadata may also include photo-specific information and a selling price. When a buyer selects the photo for purchase, the token may be us...