ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,168, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).
"Website trial service" was invented by Gabrielle Diane Salazar (San Antonio), Dustin Bowen Bitter (Lehi, Utah), Mitzi Ruiz (San Antonio), Jeanie Graciela Lopez (San Antonio), Oscar Guerra (San Antonio), William Daniel Farmer (Carrollton, Texas) and Jennifer Marie Chandler-Bradley (Tampa, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided herein to provide a trial for membership-based webservices. Specifically, artificial data and/or user data from alternative webservices are obtained to temporarily populate records useful fo...