ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,415, issued on July 15, was assigned to Discover Financial Services (Riverwoods, Ill.).

"Computing systems and methods for identifying and providing information about recurring transactions" was invented by Anna Borysek (Park Ridge, Ill.), Lori Tobler (Libertyville, Ill.), Raviprakashreddy Dunnutala (Lake Zurich, Ill.), Yu Mao (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Yawen Duan (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform is configured with new software technology for accurately identifying recurring charges and facilitating interaction with identified recurring charges, which may involve functionality for (a) obtaining data for a give...