US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on March 3 for "Systems and methods for use in authenticating users in connection with network transactions" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,062, issued on March 3, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in authenticating users in connection with network transactions" was invented by Sowmya Reddy Lakka (Wildwood, Mo.), Brian Piel (Ballwin, Mo.), Vincenzo Palomba (London), Jonathan James Main (Hook, Great Britain) and David Anthony Roberts (Warrington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for authenticating users. An exemplary method includes receiving, by a directory server (DS), an authentication request for a transaction to an account where the request includes a token and a c...