ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,467, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Character recognition systems and methods" was invented by Tanuj Parikh (Santa Monica, Calif.), Christopher Handel (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Robert Seward (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein are directed to generation and use of a system that allows a payment service to read payment objects, onboard users, and detect fraud using data from the payment objects. The systems and methods may include receiving instructions to obtain images of a payment instrument and generating data representing those images, which may include a 3D...