ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,210, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Remote transaction verification" was invented by Sindhu Shankar Rao (Bengaluru, India) and Vaibhav Shukla (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a host computer creating a log file containing data used to determine if the host computer is being controlled by a viewer computer. The host computer transmits an interaction request message comprising the log file to an authentication server computer. The authentication server computer determines if an interaction associated with the interaction request message is authe...