US Patent Issued to EDATANETWORKS on Dec. 9 for "Linking community programs and merchants in a marketing program" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,803, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to EDATANETWORKS INC (Edmonton, Canada).

"Linking community programs and merchants in a marketing program" was invented by Terrance Patrick Tietzen (Edmonton, Canada), Ronald James Mackay (South Edmonton, Canada) and Matthew A. M. Bates (Beaumont, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In generating links between local merchants and community programs, a merchant may provide incentives to customers in relation to community programs. Community programs may be tracked as may online and offline customer transactions using the incentive. Participants may include customers, merchants, community organizati...