US Patent Issued to BLOCK on May 26 for "Automatic adjustment of a point of sale device" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,016, issued on May 26, was assigned to BLOCK INC. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Automatic adjustment of a point of sale device" was invented by Brett Andler (San Francisco), Jade Fernandez (San Franciscoc, Calif.), Mani Razaghi (San Francisco), Marvin Balaoro (San Francisco), Rowan Schultz (San Francisco), Nika Torab (San Francisco), Yenliang Chen (San Francisco), Nicholas Burrows (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Michael Alan MacLennan (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Point of sale (POS) systems and methods are described. The POS device detects, based on sensor data, a position of at least a portion of a user relative to a position of the PO...