US Patent Issued to PayRange on Jan. 13 for "Intermediary communications over non-persistent network connections" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,769, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PayRange LLC (Portland, Ore.).

"Intermediary communications over non-persistent network connections" was invented by Paresh K. Patel (Portland, Ore.) and Christopher M. Sokol (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device with a first transceiver, a second transceiver, one or more processors, and memory bridges communications between an offline retail machine with a short-range communication capability and a remote server by obtaining via the first transceiver a single-use request code from an information packet broadcast by the offline retail machine; transmitting via the secon...