ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,044, issued on March 24, was assigned to SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and system for a secure registration" was invented by James Kassemi (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Lawrence Glen Holcomb (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for secure registration to enable transactions between a first user and a vendor that is facilitated by a payment server are disclosed. The method may comprise storing a form soliciting customer information including a plurality of fields, wherein at least one of the plurality of fields is associated with an attribute. The method including receiving a copy of t...