ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,801, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Cryptographically secure dynamic third party resources" was invented by James Donaldson (Belfast, Ireland) and Bartlomiej Prokop (Belfast, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing updatable secure content resource. A content server may pay a content resource on the content author for an access by a requester. The content server receives a session request call from the requester prior to accessing the content resource. In response to the session request, the content server generates a session for the requester. The conte...