ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,000, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Social media marketplace" was invented by Elango Israel Gabriel Jesudian (Celbridge, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for facilitating shopping for products that have been liked to a social media network. A product can be seen on a merchant's website, for example. The product can be liked by user to the social media website. When the same or a different user subsequently sees the liked product on the social media website, the same or different user can purchase the product from the social media website. Thus, the user is no...