US Patent Issued to Block on March 18 for "Apparatuses, methods, and systems for generating interactive digital receipts" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,449, issued on March 18, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Apparatuses, methods, and systems for generating interactive digital receipts" was invented by Yunus Sasmaz (San Francisco), Richard Song (San Francisco), Bryan D. Power (San Francisco), Amir Nathoo (San Francisco) and Jeffrey Tang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems to generate and communicate interactive digital receipts. A payment-processing system (PPS) receives first data associated with a payment transaction between a payee and a payor. The PPS is associated with a database that includes a payee profile an...