ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,044, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INMAR CLEARING INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Digital promotion processing system including contested event outcome digital promotion and related methods" was invented by Laura Arnett (Aldie, Va.), Andreas M. Benamou (Spicewood, Texas), Jacob Bowman (Greensboro, N.C.) and Srinivasan Varadarajan (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital promotion processing system may include shopper devices each associated with a given shopper. The digital promotion processing system may also include a digital promotion processing server configured to cooperate with each of the shopper devices...