ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,586, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Knot Worldwide Inc. (Chevy Chase, Md.).

"Systems and methods for a centralized gift registry with automatic retailer-specific registry creation" was invented by Kristin Savilia (Bedford, N.H.), Marshall Greer (Seattle), Janine Esposito (Irvington, N.Y.) and Shari Cohen (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for that allow for the creation and management of a centralized gift registry are described. Gifts are added to the centralized gift registry from retailer-specific registries. A gift registrant may select one or more retailers. The centralized gift registry sy...