US Patent Issued to Mastercard International on Aug. 25 for "Secure channel establishment" (Belgian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,663, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Secure channel establishment" was invented by Cedric Colnot (Uccle, Belgium), Jean-Bernard Collet (Vedrin, Belgium) and Duncan Garrett (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer-implemented method for establishing a communication channel for exchanging messages securely between an initiator device and an endpoint device using an intermediary server. The initiator device is in communication with the intermediary server via a first session encrypted according to a cryptographic protocol. The endpoint device is in communicat...