US Patent Issued to EDATANETWORKS on Feb. 17 for "Shopping cart for items selected by an account holder incented by a donation to conduct a transaction" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,156, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to EDATANETWORKS INC. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Shopping cart for items selected by an account holder incented by a donation to conduct a transaction" was invented by Terrance Patrick Tietzen (Edmonton, Canada) and Richard M Balan (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A series of associated merchant websites or respective merchant websites each selling narrowly defined product categories to shoppers who browse to select products for placement into a shopping cart. While each website is operated and controlled by a different merchant or a single merchant, each website has access to a shared s...