US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on July 1 for "Delegated certificate authority system and method" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,895, issued on July 1, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Delegated certificate authority system and method" was invented by Pamela Ghosh (San Mateo, Calif.), Wanyun Gu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Mahdi Zamani (Mercer Island, Wash.), Mihai Christodorescu (Belmont, Calif.) and Cuy Sheffield (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed. The method includes determining, by a delegated certificate authority computer, a tier from a plurality of tiers for a digital wallet provider based on a list of qualifying criteria. The method also includes generating a digital certificate base...