ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,586, issued on Aug. 11.

"System and method for assuring commercial regulatory compliance" was invented by Gina LeBlanc (Safety Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for adaptively processing financial payments. A payment provider service obtains verification of information for approval of an electronic payment in a web-based sale. A payment gateway includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a series of program steps and a database which stores rules applicable to transactions. Execution of the program steps implements a compliance and payment process, based on comp...