ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,303, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Systems and methods for using multi-factor authentication" was invented by Brian Piel (Ballwin, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication computing device stores a cardholder profile that is associated with a candidate cardholder and includes a cardholder identifier, a device identifier, payment account data, and trusted authentication data in a database system, receives an authentication request that is associated with a tax filing of the candidate cardholder and includes a filing identifier from a revenue computing device, detects th...