ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,831, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Payment handoff system" was invented by Bob Bradley (San Jose, Calif.), Marc J. Krochmal (Cupertino, Calif.), William M. Bumgarner (San Jose, Calif.), Vijay Sundaram (San Ramon, Calif.), Margaret A. Moore (San Jose, Calif.), Nicholas J. Shearer (San Francisco) and Brandon J. Kieft (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device in a payment transaction handoff system may include at least one processor configured to receive a request to perform a payment transaction and identify, using a first communication protocol, a respective device identifier of each ...