ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,867, issued on May 19, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for prioritizing a plurality of predefined rules for an expert system" was invented by Cody Maughan (Bountiful, Utah), Brijesh Garabadu (Sandy, Utah), Chandra Tupelly (Newark, Calif.), Debapriya Banerjee (Duvall, Wash.) and Saurabh Singh (South Jordan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is configured to receive a plurality of predefined rules from a database. The rules include a first set of predefined rules that includes a hardcoded priority value for each respective predefined rule and a second set of prede...