ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,276, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RIPIO HOLDING (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Payment processing service utilizing a distributed ledger digital asset" was invented by Sebastian Serrano (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Luciana Marcela Gruszeczka (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Mugur Marculescu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for a payment processing service utilizing a distributed ledger digital asset are provided. A payment processing service subsystem may provide payment processing services for merchants that wish to receive customer payments as a distributed ledger di...