ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,942, issued on May 13, was assigned to Worldpay Ltd. (London).

"Methods and systems for seamlessly transporting objects between connected devices for electronic transactions" was invented by Kevin Gordon (Basildon, Great Britain) and Charlotte Spender (Tonbridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and Systems are disclosed for displaying objects between disparate devices connected to an electronic network. One method comprises detecting, by a multimedia device connected to an electronic network, an object in a multimedia stream; determining an identifier associated with the detected object; detecting a mobile device...