ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,026, issued on Nov. 25.

"System and method for selling customer-specific data subsets on a third-party website using a web widget" was invented by Joel Brown (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is incorporated into an interactive web data seller widget that enables any ecommerce site to provide access to and from large, remotely stored databases to its web visitors and for those visitors to prospect/filter within the databases, for example both via geographic and demographic criteria. Users can find, for example, appropriate geographic and demographic matches to any applicable search criteria. Additionally the invent...