US Patent Issued to Block on Aug. 11 for "Merchant menus accessible to customer devices via merchant-managed identifiers" (California, New York, Georgia, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,669, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Merchant menus accessible to customer devices via merchant-managed identifiers" was invented by Katherine Swett (Mount Pleasant, S.C.), Drew Richards (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Xuanhua Ren (San Francisco), Vitaly Odemchuk (Brookhaven, Ga.), Katherine Ahn (New York), David Pearson (San Francisco), Lisa Fong (Hayward, Calif.) and Neil Straghalis (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first identifier associated with a brick-and-mortar store of a merchant and a second identifier associated with a designated physical area within the brick-and-mortar store can be acces...