US Patent Issued to Mastercard International on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for distributed cryptography as a service key loading" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,798, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for distributed cryptography as a service key loading" was invented by Eric Devolder (Vedrin, Belgium), Eric G. Alger (Louisiana, Mo.) and Eric Trent Robins (Wentzville, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application server has a custodian application running thereon. The custodian application instantiates a cryptographic microservice. The custodian application transmits a request message to a centralized KMS requesting a data encryption key. In response, the centralized KMS returns the data encryption key. The custodian ap...