ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,413, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in verifying identities of users to provide secure real-world meetup" was invented by David Vorhies (St. Charles, Mo.), Shawn Mehrhoff (St. Ann, Mo.) and Dakota Korzenewski (St. Peters, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for verifying identities of users in connection with a secure meetup. One example computer-implemented method includes receiving meetup details from a first user for a real-world meetup with a second user, where the meetup details include a location of the meetup and an...