ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,379, issued on May 6, was assigned to TAPTEXT LLC (Coral Springs, Fla.).

"System and methods for claiming promotional rewards using a reward wheel" was invented by Steve Doumar (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for delivering promotional rewards to a customer mobile device comprising a promotional reward wheel, a media server, and messaging application operating on the customer's mobile device. A customer interacts with the promotional reward wheel and the system captures that interaction and responsive to the promotional reward that was won by the interaction, generates a message on the custom...