US Patent Issued to Stripe on March 3 for "Systems and methods for electrostatic discharge protection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,931, issued on March 3, was assigned to Stripe LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for electrostatic discharge protection" was invented by Jay Chung (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong), Bryan Mok (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong), Tony Tsang (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong), Steven Wong (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong) and Wayne Gan (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for prevention of electrostatic discharge from a payment card to a point of sale (POS) device comprising an integrated circuit card (ICC) socket, includes a spring member comprising a first end electrically coupled to a second end. The first end is electrically couple...