ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,031, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK INSTITUTE (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for transaction validation in a distributed computing system" was invented by Sami Al Suwailem (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Hilal Houssain (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Anis Ben Khedher (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for transaction validation in a distributed computing system, the method including: associating first and second parameters with respective users of the distributed computing system, the first parameter being determined based on an increment for each validation performed ...