US Patent Issued to Block on Feb. 10 for "Integration of platforms for multi-platform content access" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,790, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Integration of platforms for multi-platform content access" was invented by Alvin Leung (Oakland, Calif.), Michael Druker (Kitchener, Canada) and Christopher Hua (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein are directed to integration of platforms for multi-platform content access. In an example, a user may request access to access-restricted content. A payment application on the user device that requested access may communicate with an associated payment service to automatically pay for the access without requiring additional user inp...