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Point of sale device with cradle for computing device

US11847631B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims

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Assignee

Block, Inc. · US

Inventors

Jeremy Martin · San Francisco, US
Mani Razaghi Kashani · San Francisco, US
Nicholas Kunst · San Francisco, US
Brett Andler · San Francisco, US
Steven Stallion · San Francisco, US
Rowan Schultz · Oakland, US
Yenliang Chen · San Francisco, US
Cory Douthat · San Francisco, US
Marvin Balaoro · San Francisco, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 11, 2020
Grant date	Dec 19, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 22, 2042

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06K7/10267
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A point of sale (POS) device includes a nest portion and a cradle portion. The nest portion includes one or more payment card or near field communication (NFC) readers. The cradle portion couples to differently-sized interchangeable frames, which in turn help secure a mobile computing device to the cradle portion of the POS device. The mobile computing device is connected via a connector to the rest of the POS device. Payment card information read by the readers is conveyed to the mobile computing device over the connector for processing. The POS device may also include tamper detection circuitry.

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