US Patent Issued to American Express Travel Related Services on March 25 for "System and method for providing a Bluetooth low energy mobile payment system" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,388, issued on March 25, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"System and method for providing a Bluetooth low energy mobile payment system" was invented by David Baldie (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A BLUETOOTH low energy mobile payments system may comprise a BLE beacon that is deployed at a merchant location. The BLE beacon may be associated with a specific merchant terminal. The BLE beacon may be configured to broadcast a unique beacon ID that is detectable by a user device. The user device may be configured to communicate the beacon ID to a payment system. In response to receiv...