US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on May 12 for "Wireless proximity facilitated mobile transactions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,240, issued on May 12, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wireless proximity facilitated mobile transactions" was invented by Satish Narayan Govindarajan (Los Altos, Calif.) and John Hastings Granbery (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing systems and methods for facilitating mobile transactions are disclosed. An example method includes: detecting, via a hardware communication interface, a user check-in request based at least on a communication exchange between a user device and a signaling device at a location. The communication exchange corresponds to a proximity of the user device to the signaling...