ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,119, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Royal Bank of Canada (Toronto).

"Method and system for event notification" was invented by Shangjia Jiang (Richmond Hill, Canada), Chung Wing Ho (Vaughan, Canada) and Lara Sisa (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and techniques for event notification. An event, such as a payment event that represents a payment transaction having been initiated, completed, or that the transaction is in progress, results in an event engine sending an upstream message to one or more servers. The one or more servers receive the upstream message, which is in a first format. The one or more serv...