US Patent Issued to Hint on June 24 for "Card present payment deduplication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,377, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hint Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Card present payment deduplication" was invented by Muthanna Nischal Ammatanda (Fremont, Calif.), Ram Prasad Gotru (Mountain House, Calif.) and Rhys Andersson Lee Chiu (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payment processing system can detect an attempted re-initiation of a payment transaction for the same purchase of an item or service. In some examples, the system compares initial transaction data against re-initiated transaction data to identify the attempted duplicated payment. Based on the identified attempted duplicated payment, initiating a ...