ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,503, issued on March 18, was assigned to Preferabli Inc. (Syracuse, N.Y.).
"Method and system for secure management of inventory and profile information" was invented by Andrew D. Sussman (Jamesville, N.Y.), Gregory M. Moore (Baldwinsville, N.Y.), Pamela Dillon (New York) and Stephen Dillon (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure inventory management system includes a product information data store that holds inventory information for products that are associated with one or more channels, as well as a consumer profile data store holding consumer-product purchase event information for each channel. The system also includes...