US Patent Issued to Blackhawk Network on March 25 for "System for payment via electronic wallet" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,396, issued on March 25, was assigned to Blackhawk Network Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"System for payment via electronic wallet" was invented by Tomas Ariel Campos (Berkeley, Calif.), Keith Miller (Livermore, Calif.), Teri Llach (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kellie D. Harper (Alpine, Utah) and Ansar Ansari (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a request to process, against an electronic wallet, a portion of a transaction, an electronic wallet optionally comprising a sub-wallet, the transaction processed against the wallet and/or sub-wallet. The method further includes identifying one or more electron...