ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,759, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Avast Software s.r.o. (Prague).

"Systems and methods for transacting over a network" was invented by Drummond Reed (Seattle), Brent Zundel (American Fork, Utah), Martin Mesrsmid (Prague) and Allan Thomson (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for transacting over a network. A first agent and a second agent are provided. The second agent is operable to transact with a third agent for use of a service, the third agent enabled to communicate with a fourth agent. The first agent is operable to communicate with the second agent to facilitate the transacting by the se...