US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Feb. 4 for "System, method, and computer program for providing a multi-merchant electronic shopping cart for a shopping service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,267, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"System, method, and computer program for providing a multi-merchant electronic shopping cart for a shopping service" was invented by Kevin H. Johnson (Kentfield, Calif.) and Tanuj Chatterjee (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer program are provided for providing a multi-merchant electronic shopping cart within a web browser. The shopping cart can be used at a plurality of unrelated merchant shopping sites and remains within the browser regardless of the displayed website. When a user selects the shopping cart, a user interf...