ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,209, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SWOOP IP HOLDINGS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Email-based money transfer" was invented by John P. Killoran Jr. (Albuquerque, N.M.), Dennis William Peek (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Matthew Custer (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic commerce (e-commerce) system may send advertisement emails to customers that are registered with the e-commerce system. The advertisement emails may include mailto links. Each mailto link describes an email message that is generated when that link is selected. When a mailto link is selected, the generated email message includes one or more paramet...