US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on Aug. 5 for "Short-range transmission of receipt data without contact identifiers" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,423, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Short-range transmission of receipt data without contact identifiers" was invented by Eduardo Alejandro Solana Lopez (Danderyd, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for short-range transmission of receipt data without contact identifiers. A user may engage in a transaction with another user, such as a purchase of goods, services, or other items from a merchant at a physical merchant location. The merchant may provide options to receive a receipt, where conventional digital receipt transmission would require the user to enter...