ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,392, issued on July 15, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Associating payment information with a document separate therefrom for use of an online payment service" was invented by Zheila Ola Lau (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relate generally to associating an online financial service with a receipt are disclosed. In one such method, a login session is established with a programmed server. The receipt is uploaded to the programmed server. The receipt is indexed and timestamped by the programmed server with at least one search tag in association therewith. Financial ...