ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,272, issued on June 9.

"Economic development and collaboration system" was invented by John C. Noel Sr. (St. Johns, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an economic development system, which enables individuals within a community to efficiently identify and express their interests in one or more economic propositions. The economic development system comprises an application which allows users to uniquely interface with the one or more economic propositions. Users of the economic development system are able to efficiently identify and express support or disapprove for one or more...