ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,470, issued on May 20.
"Systems and methods for tracking receipt of a gift" was invented by Allen Borza (Lake Worth, Fla.) and Eric Paul Ciccotelli (Culuota, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking receipt of a gift includes creating an online message, generating a link associated with a landing page, a reveal code to unlock the online message at the landing page. An anonymous sender creates an off-line gift and sends the gift, a link to the landing page, and the reveal code to one or more recipients, either together or in various combinations. When a recipient follows the link and enters the reveal code, the online...