ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,370, issued on May 6, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Methods and systems for enhancing purchase experience via audio web-recording" was invented by Sachin Kumar Singh (Pune, India), Kaushal Naveen Shetty (Thane, India) and Venkata Satya Sivajee Pinnamaneni (Dardenne Prairie, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system includes a processor programmed to process a first web page to identify a hyperlink contained thereon. The hyperlink includes a link to a second web page. The processor performs natural language processing on the first web page to determine one or more context word tokens and o...