ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,205, issued on Oct. 20.

"System, method and apparatus for incentivizing intergenerational prayers and other gravesite recitations for a deceased using funds of the deceased" was invented by Yotam Cohen (Traverse City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gravesite payout apparatus located at a gravesite for enhancing a memory of a deceased, includes a gravesite object on the ground of the gravesite or on another gravesite object that rests on a ground or on a floor offset from the ground, and a payment module that conditions its payment on recitation by the client at the gravesite, which may comprise an ATM machine including a comp...