ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,201, issued on April 29, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method and system for centralized checkout process" was invented by Jobin Kadapurath (Minneapolis), Peter Guidarelli (Minneapolis), Daniel Maas (Minneapolis) and Ramesh Thennadil (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for processing an order are disclosed. A unified shopping cart receives a first request from a first tenant interface and second request from a second tenant interface, different from the first tenant interface. Each request includes first request data including a customer identifier, a selection of one or more items, and...