US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on March 4 for "Re-using payment instruments for in-store use systems and methods" (Arkansas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,047, issued on March 4, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Re-using payment instruments for in-store use systems and methods" was invented by Bradley Joseph Kieffer (Rogers, Ark.), Mark Matthews (Rogers, Ark.), Eytan Daniyalzade (San Francisco), David Martin Nelms (Rogers, Ark.), Prasanna Rajendran (Bentonville, Ark.), Charles David Berry (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Daniel Eckert (Rogers, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a re-using e-commerce payment instruments for in-store purchasing systems and methods. A customer enters a check out and a transaction at the point of sale is started. The system re...