# Nathan Spindel — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Nathan Spindel has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Square Uses Your Phone's Location to Verify Credit Card Payments](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10198731/shopify-e-commerce-platform) — granted 2019
  A system that uses GPS data from a customer's smartphone to confirm they are physically present at a store during a credit card transaction to reduce fraud.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/nathan-spindel

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