ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,486, issued on June 3, was assigned to Worldpay LLC (Symmes Township, Ohio).

"Technologies for conversion of acquirer files for big data ingestion" was invented by James Franklin Hewitt (Cincinnati) and Senthil Andavar Karmegam (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for conversion and transmission of data files from a mainframe computing system for big data ingestion. Secure electronic payment transactional data is extracted in a mainframe format, such as Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC). The electronic payment transactional data is converted to American Standard Code for Information Interchang...