ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,555, issued on June 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for multipartite relay protocols" was invented by Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for multipartite relay may include receiving, from a multipartite relay system, a multipartite relay request. The multipartite relay request may include relay data. The relay data may include a single relay amount and an allocation policy. The method may further include requesting a relay of the single relay amount. The method may further include receiving the relay of the single relay amount. The method may further in...