ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,184, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Physical product interaction based session" was invented by Jeremy A. Greenberger (San Jose, Calif.) and Zachary Greenberger (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining product interaction data, the product interaction data being in dependence on a user's interaction with an item within a venue; examining, by machine logic, data of the product interaction data, wherein the examining include...