ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,237, issued on June 9, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Acquisition of card information to enhance user experience" was invented by Paul Aaron (San Francisco) and Shawn Morel (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payment processing service (PPS) can receive, during a transaction, and from a mobile device, tokenized data associated with a customer's payment instrument. The PPS can determine that a first application on the mobile device, and a second application on a second mobile device of a second user, both have connectivity to the PPS. The PPS can register an association between the applications and determine...