ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,953, issued on July 1.
"Gifting application" was invented by Andrew Licare (Littleton, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a gift to a recipient at a merchant location is described. The method includes validating a gifter and a recipient as authorized users of a gifting engine, identifying a location of the recipient, comparing the location of the recipient to locations associated with merchant profiles in a database, identifying a match between the location of the recipient and a location of a merchant profile, and providing the gifter with a listing of services and/or products associated with the merchant pro...