ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,646, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Real-time processing request location system" was invented by Kendra Henry (Charlotte, N.C.) and Luana Peterman (Lancaster, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time transaction location system for quickly and conveniently locating an electronic transaction within a transaction processing system in real time. The real-time transaction location system includes a transaction location tool that is communicatively coupled to the transaction processing system. The transaction location tool can assign a unique search identifier to an electronic transaction receiv...