ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,890, issued on May 27, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).
"Systems for determining purchase fulfillment options" was invented by Ryan John Lohan (Seattle), Beth Anne Porter (Seattle), Kristiana Helmick Ebert (Seattle), Felipe Gustavo De Almeida (Redmond, Wash.), Andrew John Van Zeeland (Bellevue, Wash.), Peter Larsen (Seattle), Kimberly Anne Butin (Denver), Trushna Dilip Khivasara (Seattle), Nicole Netland (Mahtomedi, Minn.), Kadir Rathnavelu (Seattle) and Bilal Nasir Shaikh (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a user accesses a seller webpage for an item for which expedited shipping is available, data regard...