ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,455, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"System and method for automated linkage of enriched transaction data to a record of charge" was invented by Prasanth Kcl (Phoenix), Jordan Meyerowitz (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Rajeev Thomas (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated linkage of enriched transaction data to a record of charge are provided. Electronic enriched transaction data, such as receipt information, provided by merchants, merchant aggregators, or third parties may be automatically associated with the corresponding transaction, ...