This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards use of shopping cart to collect and purchase items selected from multiple web sites. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7512548 entitled “Use of shopping cart to collect and purchase items selected from multiple web sites” on March 31, 2009. The utility patent has been cited 26 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

A system and method are disclosed that enable a personal shopping cart to be used to select items from multiple web sites of multiple business entities, and to place a single order for the selected items. The shopping cart may remain persistent over multiple sessions of the user. Link: U.S. Patent 7512548

Amazon filed this utility patent on October 8, 1999 giving it a processing time of 3462 days (compared to an average processing time of 1974 in the field). They have a total number of 158 patents. The first named inventor is Jeffrey P. Bezos of Seattle, WA. The patent was allowed by primary examiner C Luke Gilligan and assistant examiner Dilek B Cobanoglu.

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