ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,274, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INMAR CLEARING INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Digital promotion processing system for determining a visual characteristic for a single combined digital promotion and related methods" was invented by Andrew B. Jump (Lewisville, N.C.), Tom Fogarty (Detroit) and Kathryn Jump (Lewisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital promotion processing system may include a shopper device associated with a given shopper, and a promotion processing server configured to obtain product purchase data associated with the given shopper, and generate digital promotions based upon the product purchase data. E...