US Patent Issued to Shipt on July 14 for "Work management platform" (Illinois, California, Washington, Minnesota, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,299, issued on July 14, was assigned to Shipt Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Work management platform" was invented by Bryce Cooks (Chicago), Eric Cotner (San diego), Cooper Filby (Birmingham, Ala.), Nathan Hartwell (Birmingham, Ala.), Jair Medina (Seattle), Jean-Michel Michno (Minneapolis) and Kuang Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform for managing work is disclosed. In example embodiments, the platform may match orders and workers. In some embodiments, the platform may use one or more models that have inputs related to order characteristics or past worker behavior. In some embodiments, the platform may receive...