US Patent Issued to Block on April 21 for "Intelligent virtualization of merchants" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,662, issued on April 21, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Intelligent virtualization of merchants" was invented by Ramya Babu (Millbrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that, in an example, include receiving, by servers of a service provider, interaction data indicative of interactions between merchants and the service provider via a network; accessing, from a data store associated with the system, inventory data of a merchant; determining, based at least in part on the interaction data and the inventory data, that the merchant is a candidate for conversion between different types of appointme...