ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,676, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for recording data representing multiple interactions" was invented by Ajith Thekadath (San Ramon, Calif.), Suman Mukherjee (Foster City, Calif.), Mondo Jacobs (San Ramon, Calif.) and David Henstock (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for combining multiple interactions into a single record entry is disclosed. A data package can be created that represents a set of interactions, and each entity associated with an interaction can review the data package. Each entity can indicate agreement with the intera...