ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,932, issued on May 27, was assigned to STRIPE INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Handoff between applications on a payment terminal" was invented by Jack DeLoach (Denver), Mark Fielbig (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Nicole DeBickes (Boca Raton, Fla.), Vinay Padma (New York), Rustem Muslimov (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Atul Bhatia (Fremont, Calif.), Shanshan Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Michael Shafrir (Kensington, Md.) and Nate Barnett (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to handling communication, including handoffs, between applications on a payment terminal. In some embodiments, a method comprises: recei...