ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,914, issued on March 11, was assigned to SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Vendor token generator" was invented by James Kassemi (Albuquerque, N.M.), Dave Walz-Burkett (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Chad Person (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating tokens for use in an email-based e-commerce transaction between third party vendor and a customer that is facilitated by a payment server is disclosed. The method may comprise generating a token for use with an email checkout, wherein the token comprises a customer name, and customer email address. The processor may generate an email message for at le...