US Patent Issued to Mastercard International on April 22 for "Method and system for anonymous directed blockchain transaction" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,915, issued on April 22, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Method and system for anonymous directed blockchain transaction" was invented by Jason Jay Lacoss-Arnold (St. Louis) and Stephen Higgins (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for posting of anonymous directed transaction includes: storing a plurality of entity profiles, each including an entity identifier and a secret value; receiving a transaction request from a first entity, the request including transaction data and a specific entity identifier associated with a second entity; identifying a specific entity profile that includes the s...