ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,651, issued on May 13, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Software development kits for point-of-sale device and mobile device interactive frameworks" was invented by Prashant Jamkhedkar (Fremont, Calif.), Haoyu Xue (San Jose, Calif.) and Jie Leng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for software development kits for point-of-sale device and mobile device interactive frameworks. A service provider, such as a payment provider, that offers online and cloud based digital wallet services may configure flexible software frameworks for a merchant's point-of-sale device and a ...