ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,927, issued on July 1, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Proxy objects for tracking processing of electronic coupon codes" was invented by Anthony Le (Irvine, Calif.), Taylor James Harwood (Pasadena, Calif.) and Jonathan Travis Huff (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques for facilitating proxy objects for tracking processing of electronic coupon codes are provided. In various embodiments, a system can determine that a browser is performing a checkout on a frontend website. In various aspects, the system can cause the frontend website to instruct the web browser to transmit a validation request to...