ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,227, issued on June 10, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Secured integration of third-party logic in electronic transaction processing" was invented by Shek Hei Wong (Singapore), Chun Kiat Ho (Singapore) and Li Wei Lu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for providing a framework to securely integrate third-party logic into electronic transaction processing workflow. Third-party programming code that implements different third-party logic may be obtained and stored in a repository. A transaction processing request is received from a third-party server, and an instance of a transa...