ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,132, issued on March 24, was assigned to Affirm Inc. (San Francisco).
"Method and apparatus for facilitating merchant self service with respect to financing and content support for marketing events" was invented by Donovan Halpin (San Francisco), Jesse Kendrick (San Francisco), Julia Harrigan (San Francisco), Daniel E. Kaufman (San Francisco) and Nitesh Kumar (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of facilitating merchant self-service assistance to financing and content support for a marketing event may include receiving a request from a merchant for approval for financing and content generation to support the market...