US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on March 3 for "Systems and methods for use in biometric-enabled network interactions" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,072, issued on March 3, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in biometric-enabled network interactions" was invented by Qing Cao (Purchase, N.Y.), Patrik Smets (Begijnendijk, Belgium) and Mohamed Abouelenin (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for facilitating biometric-enabled network interactions. One example computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a biometric identity switch (BIS) computing device, from a point-of-sale (POS) terminal of a merchant, a request for an authorization packet for a transaction between the mer...