US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Sept. 1 for "System and method for facilitating coordination of timely order fulfillment for perishable items" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,116, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"System and method for facilitating coordination of timely order fulfillment for perishable items" was invented by David Perich (Minneapolis), Ali Obler (Minneapolis), Patrick Brinton (Minneapolis), Rushabh Sanghvi (Minneapolis), Baskar Natarajan (Minneapolis) and Kristofer Hjelmeland (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network based order fulfillment system that tracks capacity of staging facilities for perishable items. As changes to usage of refrigerated storage resources are monitored, changes in the usage of the refrigerated storage resources cau...