ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,929, issued on March 11, was assigned to FINTIV INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Using a mobile wallet infrastructure to support multiple mobile wallet providers" was invented by Michael A. Liberty (Orlando, Fla.) and Mike Love (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to performing a transaction using a third party mobile wallet, performing a transaction using a third party point of sale (POS) system and to making a purchase from a third party mobile wallet provided by a third party mobile wallet provider. In one scenario, a cloud-based transaction platform is provided, which receives communication from an agent ...