ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,471, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods to implement point of sale (POS) terminals, process orders and manage order fulfillment" was invented by Quinn McLaughlin (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Ben Harris Lyon (Tiburon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to integrate point of sale processing, online order processing, coupon management, WiFi access management, and supply chain and store management, etc. In one aspect, a central server provides point of sale, coupon management and other functions via browser based interfaces. The system provides a coupon to a custo...