ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,250, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"User initiated monitoring of e-commerce websites and email offers" was invented by John P. Killoran Jr. (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating a watchlist of products relating to any type of item/service/event for which any type of purchase may be made by a user. The system permits a user to access a website and identify items of the website that are of interest and other users (or friends) and associate one or more users with one or more items in the watchlist. The system stores the identified items and frie...