ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,487, issued on July 8, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Method and system for dynamic display of personalized images" was invented by Heinz Ramin Gallenbacher (Vienna), David Lim (New York), Vasily Giria (New York), Nili Klenoff (White Plains, N.Y.), Sachin Ahuja (Millstone Township, N.J.) and Grant Gortsema (Ossining, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identification and distribution of a personalized image. As disclosed, the method involves a processing server receiving an image request from a web server. The image request includes at least a device identifier and an originating address....