ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,956, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bolt Financial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method, computer-readable non-transitory storage media, and system for embedded one-click checkout" was invented by Yangxue Zhou (San Francisco) and Gregory Richard Greiner (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving user identifying information in association with a checkout request for an order. The method includes determining that a user account with a transaction processing system associated with the user identifying information does not exist in a database associated with the transaction processing system....