ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,256, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Parallel processing in a network" was invented by Ian David Alan Maddocks (Broughton, Great Britain) and Alan Johnson (Maldon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management system includes: a memory configured to store instructions; and a parallel processor configured to execute the instructions to: (a) receive a request for a transaction; (b) determine a first authorization decision for the request; (c) determine a second authorization decision for the request; and (d) perform a first procedure when the first authorization de...