ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,482, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Exporter" was invented by Nipun Agarwal (Mountain View, Calif.), Sudeep Srivastava (San Francisco) and Isaac Kim (Lincolnwood, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for self-service design, scheduling, and delivery of user-defined reports regarding promotions. The method includes receiving, from a user device, a report type and report delivery information. Based on the report type, relevant data regarding the one or more promotions is collected, using which a report is generated. The method then ou...