ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,754, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LINE Financial Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Information processing method, program, and terminal" was invented by Ryosuke Hamasako (Tokyo) and Yosuke Mazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method and a terminal for processing information are provided. The information processing method includes: receiving, by the terminal from a server, first information for making a payment using a code image; storing the first information in a storage of the terminal; displaying, by a display of the terminal, the code image based on the first information; processing, by th...