ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,576, issued on April 15, was assigned to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).
"Loyalty program system, apparatus, and media" was invented by Espen Zachrisen (Bartlett, Ill.) and Vinayak Hegde (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for managing a loyalty program. In some embodiments, a system includes a loyalty program management (LPM) system and a point-of-sale (POS) terminal. The POS terminal is configured to read a membership identifier, identify a plurality of goods, complete a sale of the identified plurality of goods to the member, and transmit, to the loyal...