ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,583, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Jane Technologies Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"System in the middle transaction processor" was invented by Socrates Munaf Rosenfeld (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Abraham Munaf Rosenfeld (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Howard Hong (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Simon James Roddy (Berkeley, Calif.), Benjamin Aaron Green (Lahaina, Hawaii), Andrew Michael Livingston (Napa, Calif.), Harry Kainen (Washington) and Scott Bramble (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for transaction management. One of the methods includes, for...