ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,409, issued on May 6, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Tax return document generation" was invented by Philip Parker (San Francisco) and Andrew Gertig (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is described for generating a tax return document. In one example, a payment service system presents a user interface on a mobile device of a user. Based on user selection of an icon of the user interface, the payment service system determines tax liability of the user and generates tax return documents on behalf of the user. The tax liability and tax return documentation is based at least in part on a user profile ...