MUMBAI, India, April 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202341067649 A) filed by Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, U.S.A., on Oct. 9, 2023, for 'methods and systems for detecting suspicious merchants involved in preauthorization transactions.'

Inventor(s) include Hardik Wadhwa; Gaurav Dhama; and Rupesh Kumar Sankhala.

The application for the patent was published on April 11, under issue no. 15/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments provide methods and systems for detecting suspicious merchants involved in preauthorization transactions. The method includes receiving a preauthorization (pre-auth) request corresponding to a payment transacti...