ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,913, issued on March 11, was assigned to Advanced New Technologies Co. Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"System and method for facilitating enhanced offline payment" was invented by Fen Zhai (Zhejiang, China), Chunlei Gu (Zhejiang, China), Yi Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Xiao Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Yingyuan Wang (Zhejiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a client system for facilitating enhanced offline payment. During operation, the system obtains a location indicator, which indicates the location of a service, from a charging system. The system then generates an offline code that allow...