ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,473, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL Inc. PURCHASE (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for triangular timestamp transformation in computer messaging" was invented by Sayed Amin Afzal (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message traffic analysis system is provided. The message traffic analysis system includes a memory device and at least one processor. The at least one processor is programmed to receive a plurality of historical messages between a plurality of sources and a destination server, for each of the plurality of historical messages, time shift the corresponding timestamp by an am...