US Patent Issued to American Express Travel Related Services on Sept. 23 for "Motion-enabled transaction system using air sign symbols" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,708, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"Motion-enabled transaction system using air sign symbols" was invented by Vinoth Ravindran (Peoria, Ariz.) and Mukund Shankar Simharaghu (Glendale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for motion-enabled transactions are disclosed. The system may allow users to complete transactions with merchants via an air sign input. The system may receive a motion-enabled transaction request comprising an air sign input. The system may determine a stored air sign symbol based on the air sign input. The system may retrieve a...