ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,030, issued on March 24, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"System and method of consolidated delivery of orders from multiple stores" was invented by Dipty Sharma (Bhopal, India) and Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Kota, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for consolidating orders for fulfillment. The method includes detecting that a shopper has arrived at a shopping mall, determining and predicting items or orders that the shopper is expected to pick up or likely to purchase during a current visit to the shopping mall, determining whether the shopper is expected to participate i...