ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,929, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Avalara Inc. (Seattle).

"Processing mobile payments when disconnected from payment servers" was invented by Badekila Ganesh Prashanth Bhat (Bangalore, India), Krishna C. Kumar (Bangalore, India), Mohan Pattadai (Bangalore, India) and Sachin M. Nayak (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for facilitating offline transactions includes: receiving, by a first user device, an offline payment request from a merchant payment system via a first local communications connection; providing, by the first user device, a payment approval message to the merchant paymen...