ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,648, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KPN Innovations LLC (Lakewood, Colo.).

"Method of and system for path selection" was invented by Kenneth Neumann (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for path selection, the system comprising a computing device, wherein the computing device is configured to receive a plurality of alimentary elements and a plurality of destinations. Computing device may compute, using the plurality of alimentary elements and the plurality of destinations, a projected combination as a function of an objective function, wherein computing is based on completion time and destination. Computing ...