US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Feb. 24 for "Communication network and method for routing data messages on networks having different communication protocols" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,695, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Communication network and method for routing data messages on networks having different communication protocols" was invented by John Larko (Wildwood, Mo.), Michelle L. Hafner (Chesterfield, Mo.), Bradford R. Dillahunty (Chesterfield, Mo.), Brenda Renee Hopkins (Wildwood, Mo.) and John D. Chisholm (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system including a first network-based portal, a second network-based portal, and an analyzer computing device including at least one processor is provided. The at least one processor is configured...