US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Jan. 27 for "Data management and encryption in a distributed computing system based on a service request" (British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,665, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Data management and encryption in a distributed computing system based on a service request" was invented by Mehdi Collinge (Hainaut, Belgium), Alan Johnson (Maldon, Great Britain) and Omar Laazimani (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a secure service at a computing node for a requesting party external to the computing node is described. The following steps are taken at the computing node. A service request comprising a request to generate a credential is received from a requesting party. The computing node generates the...