US Patent Issued to Block on Oct. 7 for "Pairing a payment object reader with a point-of-sale terminal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,261, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Pairing a payment object reader with a point-of-sale terminal" was invented by Koun Han (San Francisco), Robert Harrison Gilliam (San Francisco) and Michael Wells White (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for pairing a payment object reader with a computing device are described. An example method includes detecting, by a computing device and while in a pairing mode, a plurality of payment object readers. Each of the plurality of payment object readers is configurable to be paired wirelessly with the computing device. Each of the plurali...