US Patent Issued to DoorDash on Sept. 15 for "Tap-to-verify proof of payment challenge" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,758, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DoorDash Inc. (San Francisco).

"Tap-to-verify proof of payment challenge" was invented by Peyton Chih Yuan Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Travis Ryan Stine (Redwood City, Calif.), Megha Agarwal (Redwood City, Calif.), Thomas Chen (Belmont, Calif.), Jason Joseph Gregory (Amherst, N.Y.), Kaiven Zhou (San Francisco), Pratik Mayur Parekh (San Mateo, Calif.) and Grace Lim (Inglewood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to verifying possession of a card via a tap gesture of the card in relation to a mobile device supporting Near-Field Communication (NFC) functionality."

The pa...