US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Time-distributed delivery based on user consumption rate" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,073, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Time-distributed delivery based on user consumption rate" was invented by Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Uri Kartoun (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, shipment splitting and variable delivery is provided. The embodiment may include identifying a consumption rate of a user for an item. The embodiment may also include identifying one or more future user locations. The embodiment may further include calculating a consumpti...