ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,597, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).
"Data protection with translation" was invented by Glenn Powell (Fremont, Calif.), John Sheets (San Francisco), Paul Tait (San Mateo, Calif.), Kim Wagner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Krishna Koganti (Cupertino, Calif.), Marc Perl (Cameron Park, Calif.), Hector Rodriguez (Daly City, Calif.) and Susan Zloth (Castle Pines, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed in which data associated with a transaction are protected with encryption. At an access device, a PIN associated with a payment account may be encrypted with a ...