ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,686, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ramp Business Corp. (New York).

"Direct transaction data entry coding and integration" was invented by Veeral Dilip Patel (Bergenfield, N.J.), Jaein Lee (New York), Calvin Jun-Gong Lee (Weehawken, N.J.), Geoffrey Jacques Charles (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jared Robert Wasserman (New York), Diego D. Zaks Barrios (New York), Ori Ephraim Goldfield (New York), Serge Nasr (New York), Tae Kyung Kong (Bayside, N.Y.) and John Sarihan (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for annotating transactions includes a computing server configured to retrieve annotation requirements for transaction accounts of...