ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,094, issued on July 29, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Mobile device merchant availability interface" was invented by Arash Shiva (Seattle) and Joseph Hawilo (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing merchant slot availability management using graphical user interfaces for mobile devices are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a mobile device with processing circuitry configured to generate a multi-level graphical user interface (mGUI), and provide the mGUI to a touch screen display of the mobile device. The processing circuitry may be further configured to monitor a touch screen...