US Patent Issued to Shopify on March 17 for "POS devices as beacons for customer location identification" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,551, issued on March 17, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"POS devices as beacons for customer location identification" was invented by Charles Anderson (Smyrna, Ga.), Luke James Sartori (St. John's, Canada), Michael Joseph DeFazio (Fonthill, Canada) and Silvana Zaldivar (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for positioning of a device of interest within a merchant environment. In this regard, embodiments of a computer implemented method for positioning of a device of interest within a merchant environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises obtaining ...