US Patent Issued to ADP on Aug. 19 for "Incentive-based electronic messaging system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,960, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Incentive-based electronic messaging system" was invented by Fred Brunet (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product for sending an electronic message using an incentive-based messaging system. The computer system identifies an incentive amount for the electronic message. The computer system reserves a proportional amount of currency from a sender's account. The proportional amount of currency is based on the incentive amount. In response to reserving the proportional amount of currency, the computer s...