ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,423, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Synchrony Bank (Stamford, Conn.).

"Methods and system for providing customized acquisition protocols" was invented by Joydeep Mukherjee (Stamford, Conn.), Karen Yagnesak (Stamford, Conn.), Viveka Vardhan Ravi (Stamford, Conn.), Sarath Vadakapurapu (Stamford, Conn.), Ravish Kumar (Stamford, Conn.) and Vish Dadireddy (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are provided that include process that customize the presentation of webpages according to alternative acquisition protocols. The processes include receiving, from a first server, a webpage identifying an object for a...