US Patent Issued to Block on May 13 for "Appointment and payment handling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,665, issued on May 13, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Appointment and payment handling" was invented by Lauren A. Myrick (San Francisco), Evan Ginsburg (San Francisco) and Willem Ave (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appointment and payment handling system may operate to handle payments for appointments based on user locations at times associated with appointments. The appointment and payment handling system may determine if a location of a customer device associated with a customer associated with an appointment matches a location associated with the appointment. If the locations match, the appointment...