ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,393, issued on June 24, 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 messaging-triggered sales lead redirection which uses an interaction control server to facilitate initial communications between potential buyers and sales representatives of sellers. In an embodiment, the system comprises a triggering application installed on a mobile phone of a user (potential buyer), a media...