US Patent Issued to Block on Aug. 25 for "Simulated user input cardless transactions" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,215, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Simulated user input cardless transactions" was invented by Robert Lee (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for simulating user input for applying a tip in a cardless transaction. A message indicating a tip amount related to an electronic transaction is received at a first module in a point-of-sale (POS) system. The tip amount is communicated from the first module to a second module in the POS system wherein communicating includes, without user input at the POS system: simulating a first sequence of user inputs and a second sequen...