US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for providing digital identity records to verify identities of users" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,537, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for providing digital identity records to verify identities of users" was invented by Ashfaq Kamal (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for verifying identities of users. One example computer-implemented method includes requesting a unique ID for a user, from a software development kit (SDK) in a mobile device, and issuing the unique ID for the user. The method also includes generating, by the SDK, a public/private key pair specific to the unique ID, prompting the user to capture an ...