ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,026, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Delivery arrival time prediction system" was invented by Rui Yan (Bothell, Wash.), Hansu Gu (Bellevue, Wash.), Anupama Umesh Kochrekar (Redmond, Wash.), Sridevi Venkatramanan (Bellevue, Wash.), Feng Zhu (Bothell, Wash.), Tian Chen (Redmond, Wash.) and Tao Hu (Renton, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for estimating a delivery is disclosed. The system generates delivery time predictions, and generates a confidence score for each time prediction. The system also generates a publication determination for each particular time prediction based on th...