ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,754, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Context-aware peer-to-peer transfers of items" was invented by Aaron Y. Ng (San Francisco), Ayokunle Omojola (San Francisco) and Jesse Wilson (Waterloo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payment service system may receive a request to complete a first purchase of at least one ticket for an event, wherein the at least one ticket is offered for sale by an event organizer to a customer. The payment service system may send the at least one ticket to the application on a first mobile device of the customer, receive a request via the application to transfer ownershi...