US Patent Issued to Pinterest on Dec. 2 for "Method, medium, and system for facilitating purchase of objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,379, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method, medium, and system for facilitating purchase of objects" was invented by Jon Jenkins (San Francisco) and Catherine Cissy Lee (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems and methods that facilitate purchase of objects from merchants. For example, a user may browse a website available from an object management service and identify objects that they desire to purchase. Rather than having to locate the seller of those objects to make a purchase, the implementations described herein facilitate a connection between the...