ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,387, issued on June 10, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Dynamic privacy-preserving application authentication" was invented by Mihai Christodorescu (San Francisco), Maliheh Shirvanian (San Francisco) and D. M. Shams Zawoad (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application or device is authenticated using secure application data validation. A server computer receives an authentication request comprising an application identifier or a user device identifier associated with a user device, the authentication request originating from the user device. The server computer receives a set of...