US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Sept. 16 for "Methods and systems of using sub-domains to federate device credentials scoped to a common domain" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,453, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Methods and systems of using sub-domains to federate device credentials scoped to a common domain" was invented by Edward Neil Livingston (Fife, Great Britain), Rory Macdonald (Cumbernauld, Great Britain), Robert Ouellette (Westwood, N.J.), Grace Lim (Morganville, N.J.) and Fred M. Pacher (Williston Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for authenticating a user device via a device credential scoped to a common domain shared among a plurality of payment networks may be provided. The method may include receiving...