ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,695, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Data value routing system and method" was invented by Nick Roberts (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method includes a data distribution computer receiving a data packet comprising a plurality of data values in response to an interaction between a resource provider and a user. The data distribution computer can then determine a data item for each data value of the plurality of data values and associate each data value to a processing computer using the data item for each data value. It can generate a plurality o...