ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,070, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TAPTEXT LLC (Coral Springs, Fla.).

"System and method for text-based delivery of sales promotions with deferred text-to-call interactions" was invented by Steve Doumar (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Paul Levasseur (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for sales promotions via a text-messaging with deferred text-to-call interaction comprising a call-to-action link, generated via a script contained in the header of a webpage, which reduces the number of steps needed to obtain a sales promotion via a website. The call-to-action link triggers a prepopulated text mes...