ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,392, issued on March 25, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"System, method, and computer program product for verifying a card image" was invented by Alexandre Pierre (San Mateo, Calif.), Carl Smith (Elk Grove, Calif.), Kiat Chun Tan (Singapore), Baoxiang Kang (Singapore), Li Huang (Singapore) and Yuexi Chen (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for verifying a card image file. A system may include at least one processor programmed or configured to parse a card image file to determine card data represented by the card imag...