ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,433, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Provisioning temporary functionality to user devices" was invented by Claudia Ng (San Bruno, Calif.) and John Lewis (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity computing device associated with a service provider can temporarily provision access to a functionality associated with the service provider to user computing devices operated by users associated with the entity. In an example, the entity computing device can receive, via an application, information from instances of the application executing on the user computing devices. Based on the informati...