ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,692, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence based methods and systems for improving accuracy of authorization optimizer" was invented by Ankur Debnath (Bongaigaon, India), Ammar Ahmad Khan (Gautam Budh Nagar district, India), Ankur Arora (New Delhi), Anubhav Gupta (Lucknow, India), Govind Vitthal Waghmare (Pune, India), Hardik Wadhwa (White plains, N.Y.), Lalasa Dheekollu (Visakhapatnam, India) and Siddhartha Asthana (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and server systems for improving accuracy of authorization optimizer are described herein. Method per...