US Patent Issued to Mastercard Asia/Pacific on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for payment device-based access" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,538, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Mastercard Asia/Pacific PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and system for payment device-based access" was invented by Srinath Ravinathan (Singapore), Donghao Huang (Singapore), Dendy Gunawan (Singapore), Karl Cheng (Singapore), Hancong Guan (Singapore) and Phuoc Hoang Long Le (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control method comprises: providing access profiles for users, wherein each access profile comprises an access profile identifier and at least one personal identifier mapped to one or more obfuscated payment numbers, and wherein each of the at least one personal identifiers ...