US Patent Issued to Dynamics on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for matching online searches to in-store purchases" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,792, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dynamics Inc. (Cheswick, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for matching online searches to in-store purchases" was invented by Jeffrey D. Mullen (Pittsburgh) and Philip W. Yen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Advanced payment applications are provided to improve the functionality of cards and devices. For example, a user interface may be placed on a card (e.g., a physical button) or a telephonic device (e.g., a virtual button on a capacitive touch screen). A code may be manually or wirelessly communicated to a card. The code may be presented on a search results page of a web search. T...