ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,463, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Systems and methods for validating coupons" was invented by Cynthia M. Scholtes Kennedy (Pea Ridge, Ark.), William Polidore Jr. (Centerton, Ark.), Benjamin H. Scott (Centerton, Ark.) and Jason A. Wolf (Rogers, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system for electronically validating coupons comprises a primary positive coupon database containing positive coupon data. The positive coupon data relates to one or more coupons known to the valid. The system further includes a computing system comprising a control circuit configured to exec...