US Patent Issued to Block on Nov. 25 for "Group data objects and associated functionality enablement" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,974, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Group data objects and associated functionality enablement" was invented by Demitra Skipper (San Francisco), Jae Won Park (San Francisco), Grant Gliner (San Francisco), Rishi Ahuja (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Christopher Walker (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein are directed to generating group data objects and monitoring inputs associated with the group data objects to determine if attribute thresholds are satisfied. When satisfied, functionality may be enabled for the users associated with the group data objects. Additionally, when cha...