ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,094, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Embedded applications" was invented by Philip Goolkasian (San Francisco), Brandon Labbe (San Francisco), Shaun Forouzandeh (San Francisco) and Vitaly Odemchuk (Brookhaven, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embedding applications, or parts thereof, into other applications, or parts thereof, is described. In an example, an engagement with a first application associated with a merchant can be detected, which can cause the first application to add a user to a waitlist associated with a merchant location of the merchant, and a notification can be sent to a user comput...