ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,101, issued on June 2, was assigned to NeedAnything LLC (Birmingham, Mich.).
"System and method for notifying contacts of proximity to retailer" was invented by Jeff Sloan (Birmingham, Mich.), Sheldon Cohn (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Reaz Hoque (Stamford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings a non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-executable instructions associated with a method. The method includes: assigning one or more contacts to a retailer, the retailer being defined by a location, in a database table; tracking a location of a user mobile device automatically generating, without interaction...