US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on April 7 for "Records retention management" (New York, Missouri, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,676, issued on April 7, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Records retention management" was invented by Haley Ott (Norwalk, Conn.), Alex Valensi (New York), David Brawley (Chesterfield, Mo.), Dorian Tomace (Richmond Heights, Mo.), Joseph Beyer (Lake St. Louis, Mo.) and William Watson (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide record retention to content items in a content management system. The system identifies a content item stored in a content items database and displays a user interface (UI) that includes a list for a categorization criterion. User input is received from the U...