US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for initiating a payment action in a messaging session" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,560, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for initiating a payment action in a messaging session" was invented by Imran A. Chaudhri (San Francisco), Freddy A. Anzures (San Francisco), Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Nicholas V. King (San Jose, Calif.), Wan Si Wan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Darin B. Adler (Los Gatos, Calif.), Justin N. Wood (Los Altos, Calif.), Roberto Garcia (Los Gatos, Calif.), Soin Shedlosky (San Jose, Calif.), Tiffany S. Jon (Cupertino, Calif.) and Bethany Bongiorno (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, ...