ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,212, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Configuring verification information at point-of-sale devices" was invented by Paul Abraham Botros (Berkeley, Calif.) and Kate Fitch (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storing, in a database associated with an issuer, an association between a device identifier of a device of a user and a card identifier of a physical payment card of the user; receiving, by the issuer from a point-of-sale (POS) device via a card network, a request to authorize use of the payment card, the request including the card network and card identifier and generated responsive to ...