ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,467, issued on July 22, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Integrated interactive elements for multi-user transactions" was invented by Claudia Ng (San Francisco), Kyle Snavely (San Francisco) and Suegene Park (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology related to processing multi-customer transactions is disclosed. In an example, an interactive element is generated for a transaction and an indication that a device of a first customer captured the interactive element is received. In response to receiving the indication, at least a portion of a listing of items associated with the transaction are presented via...