ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,644, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Smart order scheduling leveraging real-time fulfillment site capacity data" was invented by Xia Chen (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods relate to technology to receive an electronic request from a user device of a user to fill a prescription, identify that the prescription is associated with a first medicine, identify a first pharmacy that is capable of providing the first medicine, and predict site capacities for the first pharmacy for a plurality of dates. The technology further determines a subs...