ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,419, issued on July 15, was assigned to Worldpay LLC (Symmes Township, Ohio).
"Systems and methods for distributed enhanced payment processing" was invented by Matthew D. Ozvat (Durango, Colo.), Michelle K. Plomske (Durango, Colo.), Charles E. Watts (Durango, Colo.), Robert Bonestell (Durango, Colo.), Daniel J. Ourada (Bend, Ore.) and Kevin Oliver (Durango, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed enhanced payment processing system includes a merchant point of sale (POS) terminal system and a remote payment management system. The POS terminal system initiates a transaction that includes receiving a payment amount, a purchas...