ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,650, issued on May 13, was assigned to Diebold Nixdorf Inc. (North Canton, Ohio).

"Service driven processing in financial transactions" was invented by Wolfgang Bergschneider (Salzkotten, Germany) and Thorsten Brinkmann (Borchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a financial transaction can include receiving, with a first computing device, a request to execute a financial transaction. The first or a second computing device can determine identities of the service applications required to complete the financial transaction. One of the first or second computing devices can then determine an order of executing...