US Patent Issued to Catalina Marketing on Nov. 18 for "Coupon validation and fraud mitigation" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,481, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Catalina Marketing Corp. (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

"Coupon validation and fraud mitigation" was invented by Tiffany Southwell (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Zubin Singh (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Ryan Monahan (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Kirk Dikun (Tampa, Fla.), Tony Mou (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Todd Schramek (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing fraud is provided that includes receiving metadata from a manufacturer for an incentive associated with a product, the metadata including a product identifier and a redemption rule. The method includes requesting a host to crea...