ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,473, issued on July 22, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Versatile point-of-sale systems and methods" was invented by Mario Fernando Sanchez De la Rosa (Stockholm) and Ida Ristner (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to point-of-sale devices are disclosed. In an embodiment, a point-of-sale system includes a base stand having a receiving interface that includes first electrical contacts. The POS system may further include a computing device having a user interface, a docking interface comprising second electrical contacts, wherein the docking interface is configured to removably dock th...