ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,440, issued on May 20, was assigned to PAX COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Secured payment method, secured payment device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Xiaoyan Su (Guangdong, China), Xiansheng Wu (Guangdong, China) and Ruizhi Tang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secured payment method, secured payment device and computer-readable storage medium, relating to the technical field of Internet. The method comprises: detecting whether a mobile terminal is connected to a first secured payment module, wherein the first secured payment module shares a payment hardware in...