US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for tokenization of personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI)" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,967, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for tokenization of personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI)" was invented by Tim M. Watkins (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a data security system for enabling tokenized access to sensitive data, including a token provider configured to initiate a secure connection with a remote client computing device of a first data subject, and receive, from the remote client computing device, a request for an access token to provide a service provider with access...