US Patent Issued to Mastercard International on Nov. 18 for "System and method for verifying signature when authenticating card-based transaction" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,462, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"System and method for verifying signature when authenticating card-based transaction" was invented by Kaushal Naveen Shetty (Thane, India), Sachin Kumar Singh (Pune, India) and Venkata Satya Sivajee Pinnamaneni (Dardenne Prairie, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for verifying a signature in real-time when authenticating a card-based transaction. Initially, a digital reference signature is captured on a mobile device, sent in hashed form to a rules engine, and evaluated for features such as length, time, orientation, area, an...