ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,351, issued on June 24, was assigned to VOCALINK INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Systems and methods for use in cancellation of or closure of network requests" was invented by An Ni Tan (London), Emma Rayment (Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain) and Debarshi Debnath (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for cancelling or closing requests. One example computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a computing device, from a service provider, a request indicative of a payment action by a third party and issuing a first technical acknowledgment to the service provider including a unique identifier for the...