ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,226, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Alegeus Technologies LLC (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for allocating resources via information technology infrastructure" was invented by John Bull (Nashua, N.H.) and Christopher Rodkey (Beverly, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to allocate resources via information technology infrastructure is described. A server includes processors to provide to a plurality of devices, an electronic benefits account transaction application programming interface ("API") configured to receive transaction requests from a plurality of heterogeneous electronic funding sources. The server can r...