US Patent Issued to TAPTEXT on Feb. 10 for "System and methods for automated Wi-Fi setup on integrated opt-in via text redirect" (Connecticut, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,040, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TAPTEXT LLC (Coral Springs, Fla.).

"System and methods for automated Wi-Fi setup on integrated opt-in via text redirect" was invented by Steve Doumar (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and David Teodosio (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automated wi-fi setup on a mobile device with text redirected opt-in. The first step is scanning a QR code with a user computing device, such as a mobile phone, that triggers a text message to auto-populate on the user computing device. The auto-populated message comprises a unique identifier. The second step is for the QR code to tri...