US Patent Issued to SKIPIFY on April 7 for "User-linked payment methods for completion of an online transaction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,023, issued on April 7, was assigned to SKIPIFY INC. (San Francisco).

"User-linked payment methods for completion of an online transaction" was invented by Erythean Martin (Danville, Calif.), Rashad Itani (San Jose, Calif.), Zach Thigpen (San Francisco), Jeremiah Anderson (Los Altos, Calif.) and Steve Almeida (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of providing payment methods for an online transaction includes: receiving an unencrypted shopper identifier credential that is associated with a specific user and is input via a checkout user interface, wherein the checkout user interface is associated ...