US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for integrating digital operations with a physical greeting card" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,801, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for integrating digital operations with a physical greeting card" was invented by Christopher John Merz (Wildwood, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a greeting card, a scannable code positioned on a surface of the greeting card, and a computer device comprising at least one memory and at least one processor in communication with the memory. The at least one memory storing instructions causing the at least one processor to electronically create a profile data file associated with the participant and a bene...