US Patent Issued to Block on March 11 for "Processing multiple point-of-sale transactions" (California, New York, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,921, issued on March 11, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Processing multiple point-of-sale transactions" was invented by Bruce Bell (New York), Gerard Thomas Knight (San Francisco) and Jared Travis Marr (Brookhaven, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing multiple point-of-sale (POS) transactions include receiving, at a first window of a user interface, a first input of payment information associated with a first item of a first POS transaction and presenting, at a second window of the user interface, a status of the first POS transaction. The POS system then may receive, at the first win...