US Patent Issued to EDATANETWORKS on Aug. 18 for "Merchant donation incented transaction" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,516, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to EDATANETWORKS INC (Calgary, Canada).

"Merchant donation incented transaction" was invented by Terrance Patrick Tietzen (Edmonton, Canada), Timothy Makoto Yamamoto (Edmonton, Canada) and Ronald James Mackay (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer program for providing a loyalty engine for automated cause marketing. The method includes a loyalty program system administrator linking merchants and charities to the loyalty system. Members register with the loyalty engine through loyalty system which is accessible via the Internet. Once the merchants and the cha...