ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,985, issued on March 18, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"System, method, and computer program product for monitoring and improving data quality" was invented by Chiranjeet Chetia (Round Rock, Texas), Punit Kumar Rajgarhia (San Francisco), Hangqi Zhao (Seattle), Claudia Carolina Barcenas Cardenas (Austin, Texas) and Jianhua Huang (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a computer-implemented method for monitoring and improving data quality of transaction data that may include receiving transaction data associated with a plurality of payment transactions from an acquirer s...