ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,597, issued on April 22, was assigned to Mars Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for electronic transactions communicating with external pet homing systems" was invented by Aaron Klein (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for dynamically managing electronic transactions of pet homing data is disclosed. The method includes receiving a pet selection, sending a confirmation indicating that the pet has been homed, determining whether at least one pet owner profile corresponding to at least one user record exists in a data store, in response to the determining that the at least one pet owner profi...