ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,865, issued on April 14, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for remote access latency reduction" was invented by Gregory T. Spillman (De Soto, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for use in providing remote access across multiple regions. One example method includes receiving a remote access request from a user terminal associated with a remote user, where the request is specific to a first data center of a network, and opening, by a front-end firewall, a first IP security (IPSec) tunnel with the user terminal. The method also includes forwarding, by t...