Abstract
This disclosure relates to verifying possession of a card via a tap gesture of the card in relation to a mobile device supporting Near-Field Communication (NFC) functionality.
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DoorDashPatent grant
DoorDash was granted a patent for tap-to-verify payment proof.
What happened
In September 2026 DoorDash patented NFC-based card verification for confirming payment credentials during mobile transactions.
Source
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- Patent grant
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- Grant date
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Tech area
- business methods / CRM / fintech
- Patent number
- US12737758
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The full record
From the Signal API recordPeople
- Peyton Chih Yuan ChenInventor
- Travis Ryan StineInventor
- Megha AgarwalInventor
- Thomas ChenInventor
- Jason Joseph GregoryInventor
- Kaiven ZhouInventor
Details
- Primary CPC class
- G06Q 20/40 (Data processing systems for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes)
- USPTO assignee
- DoorDash, Inc.
- What the invention does
- A payment check that asks someone to tap their physical card against an NFC-enabled phone to prove they have it.
Topics and mentions
Tags
- Intellectual Property
- Research & Development
- Financial Transactions
- Mobile Devices
Technologies named
- NFC
- mobile payments
- payment verification
Extraction
- Detected
- Sep 20, 2026
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patents-company- signal_subtype
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