ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,464, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Merchant-customer engagement system" was invented by Scott Ellison (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a merchant-customer engagement system include a physical merchant location in which a customer may be tracked to determine products within the physical merchant location that the customer is interested in. A merchant may use a wearable merchant device that is configured to identify the customer via a camera that captures an image of the customer, and that image may be used to retrieve customer account information f...