US Patent Issued to Block on May 26 for "Application programming interfaces for structuring distributed systems" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,687, issued on May 26, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Application programming interfaces for structuring distributed systems" was invented by Bruce Bell (New York), Kevin Yien (Manhasset, N.Y.) and Karl Westman (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to enable entities to utilize reservations services provided by a service provider is described. In examples, a computing device receives a first reservation on a display at a first merchant location of a merchant using a first reservation application. The display computing device receives a second reservation on the display at a second merchant location of...