US Patent Issued to Mastercard International on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for initializing a distributed cryptography as a service application" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,658, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for initializing a distributed cryptography as a service application" was invented by Eric Devolder (Vedrin, Belgium), Eric G. Alger (Louisiana, Mo.) and Eric Trent Robins (Wentzville, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application server has a custodian application running thereon. The custodian application instantiates a cryptographic microservice. The cryptographic microservice application builds a white-box cryptographic enclave. The custodian application transmits a request for an authorization grant to an authenticati...