US Patent Issued to MERCARI on Oct. 21 for "Browser plug-in for identification and display of alternative products for purchase" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,639, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MERCARI INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Browser plug-in for identification and display of alternative products for purchase" was invented by Dani Arnaout (San Francisco) and Jihad Kawas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are system, apparatus, device, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for identifying second products in an inventory of a second ecommerce site that are at least similar to a first product currently being displayed to an user by a first ecommerce site, and displaying the second products for vi...