US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on June 3 for "Determining physical real estate utilization from network and security data" (Missouri, Colorado, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,442, issued on June 3, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Determining physical real estate utilization from network and security data" was invented by Steven Earhart (Kirkwood, Mo.), Leila Hassan (Ballwin, Mo.), James J. Arnott (Berthoud, Colo.) and Adam Suarez (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining physical real estate utilization can begin with receiving network and security data of an enterprise. A sign of work can be identified from the network and security data. For each sign of work, an Internet Protocol (IP) address and user identifier can be determined from the netwo...