ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,720, issued on April 14, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network site cart user interface having multiple user-specified currency formats" was invented by Sailendra Reddy (San Jose, Calif.), Raphael Tsow (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott David Sharp (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system and methods adjust one or more parameters affecting the purchase of one or more items and change a buyer interface in order to display the consolidated parameter to a buyer. Example embodiments include a machine-implemented method for detecting an edit to the shopping cart, conducting a complex parameter edit...