US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on Nov. 3 for "System and method for providing merchant in-context checkout" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,048, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for providing merchant in-context checkout" was invented by Darshan Desai (Fremont, Calif.) and Kishore Jaladi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing merchant in-context checkout are described. A user is authenticated based on credentials received from a first application running on a computing device. An authentication code is provided to the first application. A signed verifier and the authentication code is then received from a second application running on the computing device. The authentication cod...