ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,519, issued on June 17, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Secure QR code based data transfers" was invented by Prashant Jamkhedkar (Fremont, Calif.), Patrick Babcock (Sturbridge, Mass.), Anant Ganapathy (Cupertino, Calif.), Haoyu Xue (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Leng (San Jose, Calif.) and Amarnath Kulkarni (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include receiving a quick response (QR) code from a computing device, the QR code including a first entity identifier, and analyzing the QR code to determine a request to initiate a data transf...