ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,289, issued on June 9, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Mobile-assisted picker techniques for in-store navigation" was invented by Christian Lee McDaniel (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimized route to pick a list of items through a store is obtained. Sensor data for a mobile device of a user is evaluated in real time to provide fine-grain orientation, direction, location, and behaviors of the user along the route during a picking session. A determination is made based on the sensor data and a current portion of the route that the user has picked a current item from the store and a next item along with its rou...