US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on March 18 for "Data communication using millimeter wave technology and storage thereof" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,491, issued on March 18, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data communication using millimeter wave technology and storage thereof" was invented by Clare Patrice Tandy (Portola Valley, Calif.), Maria Mileder (Swords, Ireland) and Raquel Buckley (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device of a user is detected to be within a first predefined range of a first wireless apparatus. The first wireless apparatus may be a wireless device operating in a frequency spectrum in a gigahertz range and/or based on a millimeter wave technology. One or more electronic messages are received from at least the first wirel...