US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on June 3 for "Systems and methods for processing data messages from a user vehicle" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,929, issued on June 3, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for processing data messages from a user vehicle" was invented by Jeffrey D. Woods (O'Fallon, Mo.), Christopher Eric Mullen (St. Peters, Mo.) and Rick Unnerstall (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payment processor computing device for performing an electronic transaction initiated by a vehicle is described. The payment processor computing device is configured to receive a registration secure token from a vehicle computing device, the registration secure token corresponding to a cardholder and including an account i...