ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,743, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cloudofchange LLC (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

"Web-based point of sale builder" was invented by Wayne Baratta (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Quentin Olson (Port Townsend, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a system and a method for online, web-based point of sale (POS) building and configuration, which can assist non-expert business operators in building, editing and testing a point of sale system to manage their businesses. The business operations range from a single branch to a large chain of stores or branches. The key advantages of the Web-based POS builder are that it is comple...