ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,026, issued on March 4, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC..

"Systems and methods for e-commerce checkout with delay loading of checkout options" was invented by Weiyi Yin (Tampa, Fla.), Tejas Mehta (Mississauga, Canada), George Tzavelas (Carp, Canada), Andrey Gargul (Toronto) and Linda Damus (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for progressively providing checkout options during a checkout transaction are provided. During a transaction process, a user interface with an options category having a set of checkout options is provided. Requests associated with the checkout options are transmitted, with at least one of the ...