US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for intelligent step-up for access control systems" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,449, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for intelligent step-up for access control systems" was invented by Mohamed Abouelenin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments may provide systems, methods and computer program code to method to facilitate an interaction involving a user which include determining that a user authentication is required to complete the interaction, identifying at least a first verified device associated with the user, and transmitting an authentication message to the at least first verified device."

The patent was filed on ...