ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,541, issued on April 21, was assigned to Worldpay LLC (Symmes Township, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for hyperledger-based payment transactions, alerts, and dispute settlement, using smart contracts" was invented by Ramesh Vijayaraghavan (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decentralized computer systems and methods are disclosed for hyperledger-based payment transactions, alerts, and dispute settlement, using smart contracts. One method includes: receiving transaction information comprising transaction data of transaction attributes for a transaction for a good or service originating at a merchant; storing the transaction dat...