US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on May 20 for "Systems and methods for use in appending log entries to data structures" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,288, issued on May 20, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in appending log entries to data structures" was invented by Rajat Maheshwari (Singapore), Charles Walton (Marshfield, Mass.), Karthik Ramanathan (Singapore) and Prashant Sharma (Madison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for use in appending log entries to a data structure. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a communication device, a log entry from a terminal and signing the log entry with a private key of a key pair specific to the communication device. The method also inclu...