Lisa Kleinhändler and Cris Young of Ohio-based Hudson Fasteners received a U.S. patent for their Product Genius Technology.

(l-r) Kleinhändler and Young

The patent covers inventions built for eCommerce to improve customer experience of online shopping allowing customers to search, sort and purchase from thousands of products on one page. The proprietary technology organizes product catalogs with multiple dimensions are organized into a single page allowing customers to see all product variations at once. 

Product Genius Technology was built in 2015 and has been beta tested on Kleinhändler’s 80-year-old family fastener business website: HudsonFasteners.com.

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued Patent 9,760,944 for Systems, Methods, Servers and clients for inventory exchange.

Kleinhändler is CEO and Young EVP of the software company they founded.

“Today’s marketplace is growing increasingly competitive with the introduction of new Internet technologies almost daily,” Kleinhändler said. “The most successful businesses will be those who leverage their intellectual property to give customers the experience they are looking for when buying products.”

They have applied for multiple patents as “a necessary step as more B2B industrial buyers convert to online and mobile ordering processes,” Kleinhändler said.

Product Genius Technology is a portfolio company at the Youngstown Business Incubator and is located at 241 W. Federal St., Youngstown, OH 44503. Tel: 800 327-8363