ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,329, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Merchant/customer POS interaction system" was invented by Michael Voege (San Jose, Calif.), Faran Najafi (Newbury Park, Calif.), Egan Schultz (San Jose, Calif.) and Satish Govindarajan (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing merchant/customer interaction include determining that a tablet computer is in a merchant orientation, retrieving merchant product information according to a received instruction and merchant orientation information, and displaying a merchant screen on the tablet computer that includes the merchant p...