ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,912, issued on March 31.
"Exclusive delivery of content within geographic areas" was invented by Ryan Hardin (Henderson, Texas) and Andrew Hill (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the...