US Patent Issued to Block on June 23 for "Contact data for identity verification" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,550, issued on June 23, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Contact data for identity verification" was invented by Sachin Rana (Brampton, Canada), Ragavan Thurairatnam (East York, Canada), David Puldon (South San Francisco, Calif.), Mitchell Jablonski (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Kyle De Freitas (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments receive, by a payment service in association with a user account associated with a service provider, an identity verification submission associated with an identifier and a name. The payment service, for the phone number, queries contact records associated with us...