ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,361, issued on July 28.
"On-demand services portal" was invented by Robert O. Keith Jr. (San Jose, Calif.) and Sudha Manjunath (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service portal enables a user to request a service from a variety of service providers from the comfort of home or elsewhere. The user is able to place the order and pay for the service using a computing device. Depending on the service request, additional steps may be included such as scanning an item or a room, packaging an item, and/or other preparatory steps. Items are able to be identified via scanning. Order entry is able to be initiated via the scanned ...