ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,883, issued on June 3, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).

"Autonomous delivery mechanism and a user device network communication" was invented by Michael John Christopher Romaniuk (Southlake, Texas), Sumesh Singh Pawar (Irving, Texas), Dayna Leanne Hardgrove (Knoxville, Tenn.), Yukiko Yamada Jones (Sachse, Texas), Abhilash Kannan (Frisco, Texas), Murali Chemboon Ramachari (Plano, Texas), Yaqub Ahmad Baiani (Richardson, Texas), Shadi Fallah (Dallas) and Sudha Venugopalan (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system presents, on a user interface, a set of instructions to prepare a plurality of objects for pickup. T...