ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,919, issued on June 3, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Context-based actions from matrix codes" was invented by Ashutosh Sham Dhodapkar (Fremont, Calif.) and Dino Dai Zovi (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, techniques include a payment service computing platform associated with a payment service and methods performed thereby. Techniques include receiving, from a first electronic device of a first user, an instruction to associate a token corresponding to a matrix barcode with an action involving a first account. Techniques include associating the token with the action and the first account...