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Adam Edwards — 7 Patents

Block: 3 patents #135 of 545Top 25%
ICInc Square, Co.: 2 patents #216 of 546Top 40%
Microsoft: 2 patents #17,644 of 40,388Top 45%
San Francisco, CA: #6,302 of 26,999 inventorsTop 25%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Adam Edwards has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Block. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in August 2025. Adam Edwards ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Adam Edwards in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2022.peak 22012: 1 patents20122021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents20222024: 2 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12400202 Area-based identification of devices for pairing Edward Gonzales, Christian De Angelis, Marc Perry, Eric Zundel Ayers, Vibhor Chhabra +4 more 2025-08-26
12126628 Adaptive authorization with local route identifier Abhijeet Kumar Sinha, Caleb Geoffrey Baker, Stuart L. S. Kwan, Zhifeng Wang, William Bruce Barr, III +3 more 2024-10-22 $414,634,000
12002027 Multi-device authorization Edward Gonzales, Christian De Angelis, Marc Perry, Eric Zundel Ayers, Vibhor Chhabra +4 more 2024-06-04 $130,108,000
11328277 Merchant point of sale collaborating with payment reader terminal via server application programming interface Edward Gonzales, Christian De Angelis, Marc Perry, Eric Zundel Ayers, Vibhor Chhabra +4 more 2022-05-10
11216795 Pairing merchant point of sale with payment reader terminal via server application programming interface Edward Gonzales, Christian De Angelis, Marc Perry, Eric Zundel Ayers, Vibhor Chhabra +4 more 2022-01-04 $309,662,000
11100490 Application integration for contactless payments Evan Doyle, Christopher Heisel, David Ragone, Mark Brown, Eric Richardson +2 more 2021-08-24 $401,136,000
8201231 Authenticated credential-based multi-tenant access to a service Juanya Davon Williams, Ashutosh Badwe 2012-06-12 $20,322,000