ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,194, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Yum Connect LLC (Louisville, Ky.).

"Area based delivery order notification and management" was invented by Joseph R. Park (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving at a computing platform communicatively connected to a system of nodes, an initial order to be physically fulfilled by one or more nodes of the system of nodes. The method further includes determining a fulfilment criterion and a local fulfillment constraint for the initial order. The method also includes generating, based on at least one of the initial order, the fulfilment criterion for the initial or...