ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,447, issued on March 25.

"Platform for providing meals in a network of dining entities" was invented by Donato Rizzolo (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform for providing meals in a network of dining entities via identifying a user type for a given user in an application platform for a plurality of users, selected as a given type providing in different instances of the application platform different subsets of user interfaces based on the given type of user with different abilities to interact with different types of other users and in response to receiving a command from the given user for performing a...