ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,163, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to INMAR CLEARING INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Digital promotion processing system including shopper selectable retailer for digital promotion redemption and related methods" was invented by Andrew B. Jump (Lewisville, N.C.), Tom Fogarty (Detroit) and Kathryn Jump (Lewisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital promotion processing system may include a shopper device associated with a given shopper associated with respective loyalty programs at different retailers, and a promotion processing server. The server may generate a promotion identifier associated with a digital promotion. The ...