ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,844, issued on April 8, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Identification via geo-fence overlap" was invented by Veronica Ho (Oakland, Calif.), Matthew Haehl (New York), Saqi Mehta (San Francisco) and Stephanie Snyder (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first geo-fence extending along a path taken by a user within a store of a merchant may be determined based at least in part on an electronic device associated with the user. Second geo-fences extending along path(s) taken by employee(s) of the store may be determined based at least in part on electronic device(s) associated with respective employee(s). It may ...