ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,695, issued on May 26, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).
"System and method for providing proximity-based indicators" was invented by Michael Joseph DeFazio (Fonthill, Canada) and Theresa Jia Ying Zeng (Richmond Hill, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for providing proximity-based indicators of other devices engaged in checkout transactions. The method includes causing a second device to be locatable by a first device while the second device is being used to complete a checkout transaction; and at the first device, displaying a list comprising an entity associated with the second device, the s...