US Patent Issued to MASTERCARD ASIA/PACIFIC on April 21 for "Method and system of accessing data among a plurality of loyalty programs" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,723, issued on April 21, was assigned to MASTERCARD ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and system of accessing data among a plurality of loyalty programs" was invented by Shi Ler Shila Chew (Singapore), Donghao Huang (Singapore), Gerald Ng (Singapore), Ian Quek (Singapore), Phuoc Hoang Long Le (Singapore), Srinath Ravinathan (Singapore) and Than Htike Aung (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for exchanging loyalty points includes storing one or more user loyalty profiles including a user identifier and one or more merchant identifiers associated with a loyalty point total; receiving a transaction request from...