ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,099, issued on June 2, was assigned to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).
"Methods and systems for providing personal shopping services" was invented by Leena Munjal (Algonquin, Ill.), Eddie Lampert (Greenwich, Conn.) and Eric Jaffe (Greenwich, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing personal shopping assistance via a computing device includes hosting a database of information regarding a customer, hosting a database of information regarding a personal shopper, and associating the customer with the personal shopper. The personal shopper is provided the ability to recommend at least one of a...