US Patent Issued to Block on March 25 for "Decreasing cryptographic-operation latency on payment readers" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,408, issued on March 25, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Decreasing cryptographic-operation latency on payment readers" was invented by Matthew Maibach (Berkeley, Calif.), Abhishek Das (Mississauga, Canada), Yujia Zhang (San Carlos, Calif.), Alice Wang (San Francisco), Eldon Rivers (San Francisco), Hayford Peprah (Toronto), Edward Tan (York, Canada), Stefan Filipek (Novi, Mich.) and Oscar Reparaz (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein enable wireless payment reader to transition between lower-power and higher-power states while still performing cryptographic operations for securin...