US Patent Issued to Mastercard International on April 14 for "Devices, methods and computer readable mediums for providing access control" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,687, issued on April 14, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Devices, methods and computer readable mediums for providing access control" was invented by Simon Phillips (York, Great Britain), Alan Johnson (Maldon, Great Britain) and Michael John Cowen (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementation described herein are directed to a method for providing access control. User information is received at a device. A request to provide access control is generated by the device based on the received user information. The request is transmitted via a network to an access manager. A response to the...