ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,180, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Intelligence tool for vendor enablement campaigns" was invented by Christopher Piccoli (Summit, N.J.), Cynthia Phillips Meyer (Woodstock, Ill.), Marie Elizabeth Aloisi (Greenwich, Conn.), Raghuram Adiraju (Frisco, Texas) and Randhir Kumar (Samastipur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor and a memory including computer program code. The memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the processor to: receive historical campaign data; determine a likelihood that a vendor will accept ...