US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on March 17 for "Compromised data source detector and method" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,546, issued on March 17, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Compromised data source detector and method" was invented by Christopher John Merz (Wildwood, Mo.) and Joshua A. Allbright (Valley Park, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compromise detection computing device is configured to receive transaction data associated with a set of transactions performed at a plurality of merchants, each transaction conducted using a payment device, identify a first merchant, and generate a list of every payment device that was used to conduct a transaction at the first merchant. The compromise detection computing ...