US Patent Issued to MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA on May 20 for "Systems and methods for use in blocking network traffic" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,157, issued on May 20, was assigned to MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA ULC (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems and methods for use in blocking network traffic" was invented by Yen Tran (Darien, Conn.), Brian Mukeswe (Burnaby, Canada), Sandeep Murugesh (Scarborough, Canada), Jeff L. Wartes (Seattle) and Blake Elliott (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for identifying and blocking network interactions. One example computer-implemented method includes accessing, by a server computing device, access data associated with an interaction between a user and a virtual location of a first party, where the access ...