ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,168, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Method and system for generating customized electronic checkout user interfaces" was invented by Mathieu Perreault (Mont Royal, Canada), Louis McCracken (Annandale, Va.), Richard Btaiche (Montreal), Mathias Boutin (Montreal), Manuel Darveau (Montreal) and Louise Heng (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for completing a checkout operation, the method including determining a set of required checkout information elements based on a checkout configuration for the checkout operation; determining a set of checkout information elements available at an online stor...