ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,472, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Catalina Marketing Corp. (St. Petersburg, Fla.).
"Personalized product service" was invented by Zubin Singh (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Todd Schramek (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Ryan Monahan (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Ron Menich (Marietta, Ga.), Kirk Dikun (Tampa, Fla.) and Eugene Kamarchik (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes receiving, in a server, a request from a service provider, the request including a consumer identification code associated with a consumer, and obtaining a personalized list of universal product codes based on the consumer identification code ...