US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for communicating with a magnetic reader head" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,006, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for communicating with a magnetic reader head" was invented by David C. Brown (Dardenne Prairie, Mo.), Simon Blythe (Ely, Great Britain), Deborah M. Kimberg (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Mostafa Hussein Sabet (Greenwich, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for waveform transmission of transaction card data to a merchant point-of-sale device are provided. The device includes a memory device for storing data, a processor, and a transmitter. The device is programmed to receive transaction card data that mimics data...