ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,331, issued on June 16, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in generating audit logs related to network packets" was invented by Bryn Anthony Robinson-Morgan (Mosborough Village, Great Britain), Liang Tian (Rye Brook, N.Y.), Prashant Sharma (Madison, N.J.) and John O'Neill (Darien, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating audit log entries for data packet transactions. One example computer-implemented method includes, in response to a request to share data about a user with a first party, retrieving data identified in the request and ...