ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,998, issued on May 20, was assigned to BEIJING JINGDONG ZHENSHI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Route determination method, apparatus, server and storage medium for cold chain distribution" was invented by Xiaozhi Cui (Beijing), Hongyu Dong (Beijing) and Zhen Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route determination method, apparatus, server, and storage medium for cold chain distribution, and the method includes: receiving a route determination request from a terminal device, where the route determination request includes: location information of each customer point in a set of customer points to be distributed a...