ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,257, issued on June 10, was assigned to INMAR CLEARING INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
"Fresh food return processing system and related methods" was invented by Jacob Bowman (Greensboro, N.C.), Pam Forster (King of Prussia, Pa.), Leonel Jerez (Pfafftown, N.C.) and Seth Maxwell (Lewisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fresh food return processing system may include a mobile wireless communications device associated with a user to obtain an image of a previously purchased fresh food product, and initiate a mobile return of the previously purchased fresh food product based upon the image. A server may store a product purchase hist...