ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,880, issued on April 8, was assigned to Worldpay LLC (Symmes Township, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for client-side management of recurring payment transactions" was invented by Snehal Desai (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein for the client-side management of recurring payment transactions. An account holder can interact with a consumer computing device, such as a smart phone or tablet computer, to provide billing parameters for recurring payments to a merchant. The billing parameters can be updated over time by the account holder."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2023, under Applicat...