US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Jan. 28 for "System, method, and computer program product for maintaining user privacy in group transactions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,038, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"System, method, and computer program product for maintaining user privacy in group transactions" was invented by Saba Eskandarian (Stanford, Calif.), Payman Mohassel (San Jose, Calif.) and Mihai Christodorescu (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for maintaining user privacy, and may include establishing a secret key for communication between a plurality of user devices, the plurality of user devices including a first user device associated with a requesting user and a second user device associated with a s...