US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on July 28 for "Autonomous delivery" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,363, issued on July 28, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Autonomous delivery" was invented by Matthew Robert Burris (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Jodessiah Sumpter (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-staged or in-person provided order is received from a customer location. Order details are sent to a fulfillment terminal and items associated with the order are prepared or collected. The items are loaded into an autonomous device. The autonomous device plans a route from its current location to the customer location and the autonomous device navigates from its current location to the customer location using the ...