US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Dec. 16 for "Combinable gift card components and process for activation and validation of assembled gift cards" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,434, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Combinable gift card components and process for activation and validation of assembled gift cards" was invented by Surjeet Bhoora (Bangalore, India), Christopher Brakob (Minneapolis), Donnie Tolbert (Carver, Minn.), Andrew Wipf (Minneapolis), Nicholas Lojewski (Minneapolis), Arnab Pal (Rogers, Minn.), Richard Ryan Walstrom (Champlin, Minn.), Alexandros Glitsos (Saint Michael, Minn.), Matthew Levy (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Miguel Herrera (Fillmore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and techniques for combinable gift card compon...