ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,510, issued on Jan. 27.
"Method and system for online matchmaking and incentivizing users for real-world activities" was invented by Mark Ogunsusi (Washington).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a rank-based user-to-user and user-to-venue matchmaking. A user profile is created on a user device through a software application or website. The user can generate temporary points by performing various temporary points attributing actions as described above. The temporary points will become permanent points after real-world authentication process, the user may perform some predefined real-world activities to dire...