ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,136, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GANART Technologies Inc. (Dallas).

"Distributed transaction system" was invented by Anthony M. Cacheria III (Coppell, Texas), David Hooker (Forney, Texas), Wayne Thomas McHugh (Little Elm, Texas), Kristopher Glover (Dallas), Webb Edwards (Lebanon, Tenn.), Arthur Martin Holbrook (Carrollton, Texas), Barrett Jenkins (Plano, Texas), Purnendu Mishra (Frisco, Texas) and Mohamed Safir Salihu (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed transaction system for enabling users to conduct transactions using services from third party service providers includes a central processing center wi...