ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,330, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Transaction processing by multiple devices" was invented by Edward Ruder (San Jose, Calif.), James Puls (San Francisco), Mehdi Mulani (San Francisco), Shawn Morel (San Francisco), Grace Huey Chen (San Francisco), Christopher Clark (San Francisco), J. Bryan Scott (San Francisco) and Eric Monti (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method can include receiving, at a merchant-facing portion of a payment system, data from a customer-facing portion of the payment system indicating a payment transaction between a merchant and a customer, wherein t...