ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,233, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Worldpay LLC (Symmes Township, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for capturing account holder consent for transaction data collection" was invented by Jacob Matthew Sterling (Creve Coeur, Mo.), Scott Wayne DeAngelo (Mason, Ohio), Dennis A. Kettler (Mason, Ohio), Balaji Janakiraman Iyer (Aurora, Ill.) and Trevor Alan Bass (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an account holder with an incentive-consent matrix at a point-of-sale device of a merchant. The account holder can provide consent to store transaction related data and obtain an incentiv...