ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,781, issued on Feb. 3.

"Cookieless ecommerce platform" was invented by Gert Van Der Spoel (Veria, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an improved cookieless ecommerce platform. The proposed approach involves receiving a confirmation of an order for the purchase of an item initiated by a platform member to a platform partner. The order includes at least one of an assigned e-mail address and a social community user id. The platform scans communications to/from the platform member to the partner to determine when a communication involves a request for an order, and based on the scanning, determines...