US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on May 27 for "Method and system for authentication credential" (California, Virginia, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,784, issued on May 27, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Method and system for authentication credential" was invented by Andreas Aabye (San Mateo, Calif.), Christopher McMillan (Castle Rock, Colo.), Adam Clark (Bristow, Va.), Christian Aabye (Redwood City, Calif.) and Simon Hurry (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An issuing authority (IA) may validate the identity of a user and issue a digital license to the user. IA may generate IA public-private key pair, and provide IA public key to the certification authority (CA). IA may sign the digital license with IA private key, and p...