ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,356, issued on June 24, was assigned to SECURTER SYSTEMS INC. (Bradford, Canada).

"Unattended mobile point of sale system" was invented by Michael Shmulevich (Thornhill, Canada), Vladimir Krupnikov (Maple, Canada) and Steve Epstein (Bradford, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method including, submitting a payment transaction through a network to a merchant website; receiving the payment transaction by a widget program on the merchant website; submitting, a payment transaction request through the network to a backend application; receiving, the payment transaction request; issuing and submitting a transacti...