US Patent Issued to CALLGATE on March 25 for "Paying telephonic order by tapping card on mobile phone" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,391, issued on March 25, was assigned to CALLGATE Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Paying telephonic order by tapping card on mobile phone" was invented by Yongjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Han Yeol Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Kang Min Lee (Mountain View, Calif.) and Seunghyuk Her (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a payment system in a call system such as home shopping, and more specifically, to the NFC simple payment system for the call system that allows NFC simple payment to be made using the customer's physical card while connected to a phone call. The present application disclose...