ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,032, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PayRange LLC (Portland, Ore.).

"Processing interrupted transactions over non-persistent network connections" was invented by Paresh K. Patel (Portland, Ore.) and Christopher M. Sokol (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine comprising a transceiver, one or more processors, and memory performs communications operations via one or more user devices. The communications operations include establishing via the transceiver a connection with a first user device, and transmitting first information to the first user device. Upon not receiving an acknowledgement that the first information...