US Patent Issued to American Express Travel Related Services on March 31 for "Methods and systems of central bank digital currency facilitated micropayments" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,874, issued on March 31, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"Methods and systems of central bank digital currency facilitated micropayments" was invented by Lucky Bimolaksono (Hurlstone Park, Australia), Matthew Stephen Bodell (New York), Jaime A. Cruz-Herrera (Jersey City, N.J.) and Dean Ernest Arthur Nicolson (Wattle Grove, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and systems for central bank digital currency (CBDC) facilitated micropayments. In at least some embodiments, a system can receive an authorization request for a purchase, the authori...