ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,362, issued on June 24, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Two-dimensional code compatibility system" was invented by Sirajuddin Nazir (Dublin, Calif.) and Yuexi Chen (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes receiving, in an interaction by a switch computer from a second device, data associated with a machine readable code generated by a first application on a first device and provided by a first device to a second application on the second device. The method also includes determining, by the switch computer, a first server computer associated with a first applicati...