Patents by Inventor Nathan David Spindel

Nathan David Spindel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Payment instrument verification techniques
    Patent number: 9530128
    Abstract: Techniques and arrangements for authorizing a payment instrument by capturing an image of the payment instrument at a point-of-sale (POS) device and uploading the image to a payment service, which performs optical character recognition (OCR) on the image to identify an identifier of the payment instrument. The payment service may then use the identifier to authorize the payment instrument for a cost of a transaction performed at the POS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Joachim Bekmann, Nathan David Spindel, Rong Yan