ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,647, issued on April 14, was assigned to DoorDash Inc. (San Francisco).
"Efficient same day package return routing with distributed fleet" was invented by Gagan Gupta (San Francisco), Viraj Bindra (San Francisco), Larry Waldman (San Francisco) and Rajat Shroff (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a server computer receiving data relating to a plurality of delivery orders from service providers to end users, and data relating to a plurality of delivery orders from end users to service providers. The server computer determines a plurality of routes corresponding to the plurality of delivery orders. ...