US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on Aug. 25 for "Drive-thru system implementing location tracking" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,188, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"Drive-thru system implementing location tracking" was invented by Benjamin Weiss (Chicago) and Nicholas L. Eby (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed to determine customer's pick-up information and their position while waiting at a brick-and-mortar store. The brick-and-mortar store may have one or more transmitters installed at predetermined locations. By utilizing an application installed on each customer's mobile computing device, each mobile computing device may transmit customer information and ranging data when within ...