ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,592, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Multi-user content personalization" was invented by Ronnie Washington Jr. (Upper Marlboro, Md.), Ross Lindly (Los Angeles) and Maurice Mickens (Ellenwood, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilitating multi-user content personalization is described. Respective requests to personalize respective payments from respective payors to a payee are received from respective user devices executing a payment application. A customization user interface is presented to the respective payors from which the respective payors are able to customize respective screens to be prese...