Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ketan Sachdeva, Calvin Zhong, and Deepika Palanisamy, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 11,922,429, owned by Amadora Systems LLC, an NPE and entity of Raymond Anthony Joao. The ‘429 patent relates relates to a transaction security apparatus that transmits a notification message to a communication device associated with an account holder of the account. The central processing computer provides for a retrieval, by the user or the operator via the display, of the information regarding the transaction and the photograph or the video clip of the individual involved in the transaction. It had been asserted against JP Morgan Chase, Bank Ozk, Frost Bank, Austin Bancorp, Regions Financial, Texas National Bank of Jacksonville, Bank of Texas, VeraBank, Truist Bank, and Texas Bank & Trust.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.
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