ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,280, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Medixin Inc. (Toronto).
"Computer system and method for offering coupons" was invented by Balarajan Balasubramaniam (Toronto) and Mohammadrasool Raeesi Nafchi (Richmond Hill, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system and method for offering coupons to a user is provided herein. The computer system includes a coupon offering server. The coupon offering server includes a shopping container image processor configured to detect a pre-purchase item in shopping container image data. The shopping container image processor includes an object detector module and a barcode detector module. Th...