ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,440, issued on July 28, was assigned to DRAFT2DIGITAL LLC (Oklahoma City).

"Product release system, method and device having a customizable prepurchase function" was invented by Mark Charles Coker (Los Gatos, Calif.) and William James Kendrick (Olympia, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product release system, method and device that enables product controllers to generate product listings for one or more products as well as one or more customized prepurchase events for each of the products. The product release system, method and device then executes the prepurchase events according to one or more pricing, timing and permission c...