US Patent Issued to Bytedance on June 3 for "Consumer device presence-based transaction session" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,918, issued on June 3, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Consumer device presence-based transaction session" was invented by Michael Chen (San Francisco), Robert James Skillington (San Francisco), Jay Walter Robinson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tuomas Santeri Artman (San Francisco), Cristian Matias Sepulveda (San Francisco), Joshua Isaac Zloof (San Francisco), Leslie Jean Chicoine (San Francisco) and Mahmudul Arefin Din (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing a consumer device presence-based transaction sessions are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for an app...