US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on March 24 for "Systems and methods for use in securing backup data files" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,810, issued on March 24, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in securing backup data files" was invented by Bryn Anthony Robinson-Morgan (Mosborough Village, Great Britain), Liang Tian (Rye Brook, N.Y.) and Prashant Sharma (Madison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for backing up a data file. One example computer-implemented method includes generating an L4 key and, for each contact attribute of the data file, generating an L3 file including the L4 key and an identifier of a user and encrypting the L3 file with an un-masked version of the co...