ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,762, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Method and system for intelligently settling bridged transactions" was invented by Aakarsh Malhotra (New Delhi), Ashish Kumar (Lucknow, India) and Deepak Chaurasiya (Gorakhpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for intelligently settling bridged transactions are disclosed. The method performed by a server system includes receiving a payment authorization message associated with an ongoing payment transaction from an issuer server. Here, the ongoing payment transaction is a bridged transaction with the issuer server operat...