US Patent Issued to Mastercard International on Jan. 28 for "Method to determine that a credit card number change has occurred" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,106, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Method to determine that a credit card number change has occurred" was invented by Smriti Gupta (New Delhi), Gaurav Dhama (Gurgaon, India), Hardik Wadhwa (Bangalore, India), Puneet Vashisht (Gurgaon, India), Yatin Katyal (Rohtak, India), Ankur Saraswat (Gurgaon, India) and Aakash Deep Singh (Ladwa, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device for determining a new credit card number that is a continuation match with an old credit card number of a credit card account that has changed numbers comprises a processing element programmed to:...