ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,431, issued on March 25, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Seamless promotion redemption" was invented by Benjamin Kim (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and related methods of providing seamless transactions, including payments and promotion redemptions, are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a system including a communication beacon and one or more servers. The communication beacon may be configured to communicate with consumer devices via a direct wireless connection when the consumer devices are within a wireless direct communicable range of the communication beacon. The one or more...