ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,896, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GANART TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Dallas).
"Method and system of accretive value store loyalty card program" was invented by Mohamed Safir Salihu (Coppell, Texas), Wayne Thomas McHugh (Little Elm, Texas), Arthur Martin Holbrook (Carrollton, Texas), Purnendu Mishra (Dallas) and Lee Coleman (Sugarland, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enabling an employee to utilize earned and unpaid earnings includes receiving, with a with a central office processor, a record of an employee's accrued and unpaid earnings for a predetermined time period and storing the record in a database. The method includ...