US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Nov. 3 for "Provisioning of payment acceptance to payment account holders" (American, Canadian, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,030, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Provisioning of payment acceptance to payment account holders" was invented by Prashant Sharma (Madison, N.J.), Zahir Khoja (Larchmont, N.Y.), James Hicks (Toronto), Ashwin Chandrasekaran (Edgewater, N.J.) and Philip Wei Ping Yen (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a request for enrollment from a user at a wallet service provider (WSP) computer, and enrolling the user in the WSP computer. A message is transmitted to the user to query the user about accepting payment card account system transactions. A response to t...