ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,397, issued on March 25, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Single payment validation gateway" was invented by Isabel Eu (Atlanta), Jonathan Spear (Atlanta), Cindy Kim-Spann (Woodstock, Ga.), Connie Hickey (Atlanta) and Nicole Gerhard (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product for consolidating financial transactions of an employee in a payment technology gateway. The payment technology gateway comprises an electronic wallet linked to a payment technology application and a paycard linked to the payment technology application. The payment technology gateway is conf...