ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,714, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Switch Technology Solutions LLC (Binghamton, N.Y.).
"Loyalty switch" was invented by Mirko Gojkovic (Toronto), Raymond H. Stanton III (Binghamton, N.Y.), Luke Stanton (Binghamton, N.Y.) and Vikas Mehta (Glen Ellyn, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loyalty switch for examining loyalty messages and routing the loyalty messages to one or more loyalty hosts and examining responses and routing the responses back to stores. Such a switch has configurable number of selector handlers pool, and the switch accepts a connection from stores and reads loyalty host information from master data to establ...