US Patent Issued to Block on Sept. 15 for "Point of sale system transaction processing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,570, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Point of sale system transaction processing" was invented by Yenliang Chen (San Francisco), Isreal Blagdan (Oakland, Calif.), Michael C. Lamfalusi (Cupertino, Calif.), Kartik Lamba (Berkeley, Calif.) and Jeremy Wade (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point-of-sale system used in transactions between a merchant and a consumer can have a merchant terminal and a consumer terminal. The merchant terminal can provide a merchant point-of-sale graphical user interface (GUI) to the merchant. The consumer terminal can display a plurality of screens on a touch...