ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,704, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Electronic consumer-tracking coupons" was invented by Jan Fedak (Colleyville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a system and method for associating a user with a physical transaction, are generally described herein. A method may include accessing a webpage based on a machine-readable indication printed on a receipt received as a result of a transaction, the webpage including a coupon, associating the coupon and the transaction with a user identification included in a browser attribute of the webpage, receiving, on the webpage, a user selection of a ...