US Patent Issued to Block on March 18 for "Apparatuses, methods, and systems for transmitting payment proxy information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,459, issued on March 18, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Apparatuses, methods, and systems for transmitting payment proxy information" was invented by Marc Hernandez (San Francisco) and Brian Grassadonia (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems directed to scanning, by an imaging device associated with a customer computing device, a Quick Response (QR) code displayed on a merchant computing device; decoding, by an application on the customer computing device, data embedded in the QR code; identifying, by the customer computing device and based on the decoded data, a uniform resource locator (U...