ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,648, issued on May 13, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Reprogrammable point-of-sale transaction flows" was invented by Jonathan Andrew Wolter (San Francisco), Pierre-Yves Ricau (San Francisco) and Robert Dickerson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrating payment processing functionality into a third-party application via software development kit (SDK) instructions is described. In an example, a payment card reader can include reader instructions executable on the payment card reader to configure the payment card reader to read payment card data from a payment card and transmit the payment card data to ...