ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,737, issued on April 21, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Dynamic recommendations based on customer profiles" was invented by Aubrey Knudson (Atlanta), Zoe Allen (New York), Ashley Baker (Los Angeles) and John Barton Wheeler (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic recommendations based on customer profiles is described. A computing system may receive, in association with a visit of a customer to a merchant location of a merchant, an identifier (ID) of the customer. The computing system may access, based at least in part on the ID, a customer profile of the customer. The computing system may access item availabi...