ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,954, issued on April 22.

"System and method for automated delivery of refrigerated perishable items" was invented by Daniel Villamar (North Las Vegas, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selling goods to a customer, comprising: loading a variety of goods into a plurality of dispenser robots; receiving an order for goods by a customer over a communications network; causing a delivery vehicle to move along a guideway to at least one location of at least one dispenser robot in the plurality of dispenser robots responsive to receiving the order; causing dispensing of goods from the at least one dispenser robot into the deliver...