ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,846, issued on May 19, was assigned to Lazlo 326 LLC (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Point of sale intermediation system" was invented by Michael C Pinkus (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point of sale intermediation system is adapted to be integrated with a point of sales terminal, scanning device, receipt printer and/or additional peripheral devices. The system includes a first intermediary device that receives the electronic barcode scanned text data output from the scanning device and relays it to a data manager that utilizes the data represented in the electronic barcode scanned text data output and relays an electronic modified...