ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,278, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TAPTEXT LLC (Coral Springs, Fla.).
"System and method for text-based lead generation" 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 text message-based lead generation is disclosed. A computing device generates and transmits a passive call-to-action comprising a uniform resource locator configured to prepopulate a ready-to-send text message comprising a payload. Upon receipt of a text message substantially corresponding to the payload, device-specific data is used to match the mobile device to a...