ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,521, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Peer-to-peer payment processing" was invented by Tuomas Artman (San Francisco), Jyri Engestrom (San Francisco) and Ulf Schwekendiek (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and related methods facilitating payments with a mobile device are discussed herein. Circuitry in a networked-based payment system may be configured to receive payment information from a first device. The first device may include circuitry configured to wirelessly receive wallet identifying data from the payment system. The wallet identifying data may be used to secure message...