ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,485, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"Linking a context environment to a context service" was invented by John Bruno (Phoenix), Sibish Neelikattil Basheerahammed (Phoenix), Premkumar Manivannan (Phoenix), Nageshwara R. Chirravuri (Chandler, Ariz.) and Sathish Muthukrishnan (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contextual services delivery system that may deliver different contextual services to a smartphone and/or a POS terminal in response to a context environment, which can provide a user with a customized contextual services experience. In one embodiments, the sy...