ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,159, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Enterprise platform with integrated user-curated playlist" was invented by Daniel Gurin (Montreal), Felipe Riso Bezerra Leite (Atlanta) and Daniel Pittack (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A merchant processing system accesses a user interface of a content delivery service, to identify media content items. In response to merchant inputs, the merchant processing system causes generation of a playlist of media content items in a playlist format of the content delivery service. In response to determining that the user is accessing an application of the me...