ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,022, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Worldpay LLC (Symmes Township, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for executing real-time electronic transactions using API calls" was invented by William J. Wied (Austin, Texas), Aman S. Cheema (Warwickshire, Great Britain), Manuela Dragan (Westfield, N.J.) and Stephen E. Dinan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of executing a real-time electronic transaction by a real-time transaction system are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by an application programing interface (API) system, an electronic transaction request from a user. The API system may transmit the el...