ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,305, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Computer implemented method and system for requesting consent from a consumer to complete an action" was invented by Cristian Radu (Beauvechain, Belgium) and Valerie Wouters (Genval, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method (10) of requesting consent from a consumer to complete an action. The method (10) comprises: determining (1) a time interval during which a probability of a consumer providing consent to complete the action exceeds a probability of the consumer not providing consent to complete the action;...