ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,235, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Sensor-based transaction authorization via user device" was invented by Daniel Jeffrey Post (San Mateo, Calif.) and Thomas Templeton (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes receiving, from one or more motion sensors in a device, data describing a signature arc in three-dimensional space, the signature arc having been generated by gesturing using the device; identifying, from the data describing the gestured signature arc, a plurality of points that correspond to the gestured signature arc in three-dimensional space; generating a curve al...