US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Dec. 2 for "Drive up incentivization engine in an order fulfillment system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,367, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Drive up incentivization engine in an order fulfillment system" was invented by Gagan Mahajan (Minneapolis), Anshul Chawla (Minneapolis), Balaji Varadarajan (Minneapolis) and Nicholas Johnson (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides for incentivizing a user to pick up an order at an fulfillment location. A method can include receiving, at a mobile device, information for picking up an order at a fulfillment location and incentization information from a server system, where the incentivization information includes information ...