US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "Categorization of transactions using third-party data" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,796, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Categorization of transactions using third-party data" was invented by Jon Tong (London), George Walker (London), Andrei P. Makhanov (Orinda, Calif.), Derek Farmer (Seattle), Kieran O'Sullivan (London), Marco Paneghel (London), Mark Schubel (Redwood City, Calif.) and Saurabh V. Pendse (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving information associated with a transmission of data. The method may include determining a classification for the information associated with the transmission of data. Based on the classification and in r...