ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,053, issued on March 3, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Interactive electronic notification" was invented by Garrett Spitzer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system receives an indication of a payment for a transaction between a first user and a second user, and initiated using a physical card or a virtual card associated with an account of the first user. A notification representative of the transaction is presented via a user interface of a user device of the first user and includes transaction details associated with the transaction, and further includes an interactive component to e...