US Patent Issued to Mastercard International on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for initializing a distributed cryptography as a service application" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,448, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for initializing a distributed cryptography as a service application" 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 server receives a command to instantiate a cryptographic microservice application on the application server. In response, the server instantiates the cryptographic microservice application. The cryptographic microservice application builds...