ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,730, issued on April 21, was assigned to SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Sending funds via an email payment gateway" was invented by John P. Killoran Jr. (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An email payment gateway may be configured to send emails to potential donors. The emails may include mailto hyperlinks. Each mailto hyperlink may be associated with one or more fundraising campaigns, and each mailto hyperlink describes an email message that may be generated when that hyperlink is selected. When a mailto hyperlink is selected, the generated email message may include one or more parameters related to the f...