ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,321, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intercept LLC (Plano, Texas).

"System and method for locational messaging" was invented by Jason Jude Hogg (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Nicholas Eugene Kleinjan (Edina, Minn.), Nicholas Patrick Johns (Lutz, Fla.), Blaine Anderson (Spring Hill, Fla.) and Jamie R. Kenas (St Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Positional communication systems and methods include receiving a definition of a first geographic area including a first commercial location by a computer system and storing the first geographic area in a memory. The location of a mobile device in the possession of a customer is determi...