ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,918, issued on Sept. 22.

"Methods and systems for facilitating access to membership-based venues" was invented by Clinten Jude Aragona (Bridgeport, W.va.) and Ashley Jennell Aragona (Bridgeport, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for facilitating an access to a membership-based venue are provided. In response to determining that a mobile application, associated with the membership-based venue, is downloaded at a user device, a membership of the membership-based venue to a user associated with the user device is automatically granted. One or more offers associated with the membership-based venue are sen...