ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,884, issued on April 22, was assigned to CFPH LLC (New York).

"Examples of delivery and/or referral services" was invented by Howard W. Lutnick (New York), Jed Kleckner (New York), Colin Sims (New York) and Jason White (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods that may relate to referral and/or delivery services are described. Some embodiments may include billing merchants for delivery services in a consolidated fashion, some embodiments may include interactions with point of sale systems."

The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2023, under Application No. 18/230,250.

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