US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on July 15 for "Systems and methods for use in binding internet of things devices with identities associated with users" (American, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,101, issued on July 15, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in binding internet of things devices with identities associated with users" was invented by Sandeep Malhotra (Greenwich, Conn.), Rajat Maheshwari (Singapore) and Prashant Sharma (Madison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for binding an IoT device with an identity of a user, whereby action by the IoT device may be attributed to the user. One example computer-implemented method includes verifying a user and, in response to the verification, compiling and storing identifying data for t...