ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,690, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Asher Shamam (Granada Hills, Calif.).

"Counter-party trader social networking service system and associated methods" was invented by Asher Shamam (Granada Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and/or method of facilitating online social network trading relationships among multiple traders having opposing risk and reward positions vis-a-vis an asset. The social networking service (SNS) system for counter-party trading (e.g., equities, securities, commodities, options, futures, currencies) includes a networked server configured to receive a trade sharing level election and a count...