ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,678, issued on July 21, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Determining processing weights of rule variables for rule processing optimization" was invented by Prabin Patodia (Bangalore, India), Shikha Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Sumit Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for determining processing weights of rule variables for rule processing optimization. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may utilize different decision services that implement rules for decision-making of data including real-time data in prod...