MUMBAI, India, Oct. 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441031127 A) filed by Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, U.S.A., on April 18, 2024, for 'methods and systems for detecting unauthorized reseller.'

Inventor(s) include Nikhil Tumbde; Kamal Kant; Nitish Kumar; and Sonia Gupta.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 24, under issue no. 43/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments provide methods and systems for detecting unauthorized resellers in payment transactions. Method includes receiving an authorization (auth) request of a payment transaction between a merchant and a cardholder. Method includes accessing multiple feat...