ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,054, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bobcar Media LLC (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus for selling consumer products" was invented by Benjamin Cohen (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and David Hazan (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for advertising, promoting, marketing and/or selling products and services. The inventions include a mobile vehicle and moving showroom for advertising, promotion, marketing, and sales of products and services. The products and services may be promoted for direct sale from the moving showroom, or for sale from other outlets, such as retail stores and internet sales."

The pat...