US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Sept. 23 for "System, method, and apparatus for generating tokenized images" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,872, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"System, method, and apparatus for generating tokenized images" was invented by Varun Sharma (Foster City, Calif.), Nicholas Cai (Fremont, Calif.), Walker Carlson (San Diego) and Ajit Vilasrao Patil (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system and computer-implemented method for encoding account tokens in image files. The method includes receiving, from a user associated with an account identifier, an identification of at least one image, generating at least one token based on the account identifier of the user, enco...