US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on July 22 for "Systems and methods for improved detection of network attacks" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,727, issued on July 22, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for improved detection of network attacks" was invented by Sayed Amin Afzal (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system for detecting cyber-attack events is described. The computing system executes a roughness profiling engine and a cyber-attack detection model. The roughness profiling engine is configured to receive a plurality of payment transaction authorization request messages and generate a plurality of groups, each group of the plurality of groups associated with a first data field. The roughness profil...