US Patent Issued to MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA on March 3 for "IP hardened universal device identifier" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,614, issued on March 3, was assigned to MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA ULC (Vancouver, Canada).

"IP hardened universal device identifier" was invented by Sik Suen Chan (Richmond, Canada), Igor Opushnyev (New Westminster, Canada), Nikolay Shenkov (Burnaby, Canada) and Christina Bowman (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein provide a server including a memory and an electronic processor. The server includes a UDID database. The electronic processor is configured to receive an identification request regarding a currently-observed user device having a first set of attributes associated with the currently-observ...