US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on June 3 for "Chip card socket communication" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,292, issued on June 3, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Chip card socket communication" was invented by Kiushan Pirzadeh (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhanced techniques for communicating with an integrated circuit chip card are disclosed. An integrated circuit chip card may include a processor, a memory storing a plurality applications executable by the processor, an input/output (I/O) interface, and a network interface coupled to the (I/O) interface. The network interface may implement a plurality of logical ports, and the network interface can be configurable to select ...