ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,235, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Transaction analysis and visualisation" was invented by Mohit Taneja (Waterford, Ireland), Jack Nicholls (Dublin), James Conway (Dublin), Nitish Kothale (Dublin), Shannon Holland (San Francisco), Stephen Patrick Flinter (Terenure, Ireland) and Weston Moran (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of decomposing a blockchain comprising transactions in digital currency for analysis and display is described. The method comprises first determining a range of blocks in the blockchain. Each block in the range of blo...