US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on June 17 for "Secure remote token release with online authentication" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,389, issued on June 17, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Secure remote token release with online authentication" was invented by Simon Law (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and techniques are described herein for providing authentication. The technique includes registering user authentication data such as biometrics data with a communication device. The authentication data is linked to an account or service provider, and is used to verify the identity of the user when accessing the account. The communication device may obtain a public/private key pair, for which the pub...