ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,560, issued on April 15, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Speculative transaction operations for recognized devices" was invented by Sanjeev Sharma (Georgetown, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to speculatively processing transactions. A transaction processing system may receive an indication of a trigger event associated with an electronic transaction not yet initiated by a client computing device. In some embodiments, in response to the indication of the trigger event and prior to receiving an indication of the electronic transaction being initiated, the computer system begins sp...