ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,969, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for on demand location-based offers" was invented by Uma Meyyappan (Fremont, Calif.) and Bipin Sahni (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A social media computing system is described. The social media computing system provides a social media platform to a plurality of users. Additionally, the social media computing system provides merchants the ability to provide targeted offers to users of the social media platform. As used herein, the word "merchants" also includes service providers. The offers relate to goods or servic...