ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,176, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Alpha Modus Corp. (Cornelius, N.C.).

"Method for personalized marketing and advertising of retail products" was invented by Michael Garel (Austin, Texas) and Jim Wang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for personalized marketing or advertising of products for purchase from retail stores. Generally, the method includes utilizing information monitoring devices to gather activities of the persons, including product interaction information, to obtain an information analysis about the consumer activities of the persons, further includes tracking the persons utilizing information mo...