ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,791, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Bushel Inc. (Fargo, N.D.).
"Qualitative commodity matching" was invented by Ryan Raguse (Fargo, N.D.), Jake Joraanstad (Fargo, N.D.), Dane Braun (Fargo, N.D.) and Ted Steinmann (Fargo, N.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for operating a commodity marketplace. The system may include an interface for at least receiving a seller marketing plan from each of a plurality of commodity sellers and a buyer marketing plan from a commodity buyer. The system may also include a processor executing instructions stored on memory and configured to select a plurality of seller marketing plans ...