ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,578, issued on April 15, was assigned to rewardStyle Inc. (Dallas).

"System and method for location based dynamic redirection of advertiser affiliate links for online advertising" was invented by Forrest Jordan (Dallas) and Baxter Box (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for dynamically managing advertiser affiliate links for online marketing. A global redirect server accepts a visitor's web browser request for a product or non-product webpage associated with an affiliate network advertiser URL, and returns a corresponding product or non-product webpage to the visitor that is corrected for the visitor...