ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,995, issued on April 7, was assigned to SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Myriad of payment methods with alternate payment controls" was invented by John P. Killoran Jr. (Albuquerque, N.M.), Patrick Killoran (Jackson Heights, N.Y.) and Corey Englebrake (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing an email as a command is disclosed. The system and method include formatting an action in an e-commerce system based on an assigned address, wherein communication with the assigned address initiates the action, and authenticating a message addressed to the assigned address, wherein for a positi...