ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,564, issued on April 15, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Method, system, and computer program product for detecting duplicate authorization requests" was invented by Gurpreet Singh Bhasin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting duplicate authorization requests includes: receiving an authorization request over an electronic payment processing network associated with an electronic payment transaction; determining whether the authorization request is a potential duplicate authorization request or is not a duplicate authorization request based on a bloom filter; in re...