ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,500, issued on March 18, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Facilitating online transactions" was invented by Nathaniel Blake Scholl (Oakland, Calif.), Andrew David Miner (Kent, Wash.) and Jason Alan Crawford (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Merchandise content is aggregated from numerous merchant sources and presented on computing devices of individual users. Users are able to purchase select individual merchandise items by performing a simplified action, such as a screen tap on a touchscreen device. When the user performs the action, a series of actions are performed programmatically and/or automatica...