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Method of and system for correlating charitable contributions

US5724518A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 28, 1996
Grant dateMar 3, 1998
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 28, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07F19/203
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A central office correlates charitable contributions made at vending stations in food service establishments which issue information carriers in return for charitable contributions which are receipts for the contribution and entitle the donor to a beverage dispensed from a machine responding to the information carrier.

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