ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,704, issued on March 4, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in neutral data analysis across data structures" was invented by Jason Revelle (San Anselmo, Calif.), Cynthia Catherine Hembrock (Lake St. Louis, Mo.) and Matt Wickman (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for providing neutral data access across multiple data structures. One example computer-implemented method includes accessing, by a computing device, a first data element in a data structure and assigning a first unique identifier to the first data element. The method also in...