US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on Sept. 30 for "Visualization of spending data in an altered reality" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,692, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Visualization of spending data in an altered reality" was invented by Vijeyta Aggarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Charles Todasco (San Jose, Calif.) and Kevin Ward (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for visualizing user spending data in an altered reality are provided. Spending data includes items purchased, budgets for specific rooms or categories, prices paid, dates of purchase, and amounts spent. The user may interact within the altered reality to manage spending and move budgets be...