ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,094, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to A Place for Mom Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for automated referral with concurrent information transmission" was invented by Scott Matthew Clayton (Zionsville, Ind.), Danielle Stoppelmann (New York), Steven Feero (Cheshire, Conn.) and Neil Vora (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed, is an automated referral system for generating and managing referrals for services or products. According to certain examples, the system operates by receiving user-defined criteria from a client device, such as location, budget, and service type. It filters a database to identify a relevant su...