ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,245, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Remote decoupled application persistent state apparatuses, methods and systems" was invented by Thomas Purves (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The REMOTE DECOUPLED APPLICATION PERSISTENT STATE APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS ("P-STATE") transforms purchase action input, cookie states search criteria input, and cookie states selection input via P-STATE components such as cookie/states storage ("CSS") component; cookie states search presentation ("CSSP") component; and cookie/states reload/recreate ("CSRR") component, into cooki...