ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,435, issued on May 20, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Application integration for web payments" was invented by Pritesh Bodalia (Waterloo, Canada), Deepkarn Bedi (Sausalito, Calif.), Christopher Sukovich (San Francisco), Vinh Au (Kitchener, Canada) and Jessica Bullitt (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Application integration for web payments is described. In an example, a peer-to-peer (P2P) payment platform can present, via a web browser, a merchant web page that includes an actuation mechanism for selection of a payment making platform for making a payment for a transaction. The peer-to-peer (P2P) payment...