ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,019, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"System and method for securely transacting over a landline" was invented by Christopher T. Scholl (Saint Peters, Mo.), James W. Barkhurst (Fenton, Mo.) and Shawn Mehrhoff (Saint Ann, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device for securely transacting over a landline is provided. The computing device is configured to receive, through a landline, from a merchant in response to a transaction request by a user, a merchant identification message including a merchant identifier, extract the merchant identifier from the merchant identificatio...