ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,955, issued on June 23, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Gateway service driven downstream orchestration" was invented by Rajendra Bhat (Bangalore, India) and Prabin Patodia (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are disclosed for providing gateway services between a client system and downstream service systems for a service system. The disclosed gateway service system is capable of implementing a new service for a client system in response to a request from the client system. The gateway service system internally determines which downstream services are needed to implement the new service...