ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,610, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method of wish-list item pickup through customer connection" was invented by Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Kota, India), Peter Edward Stubbs (Georgetown, Mass.) and Sumit Pandey (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for using a visitor to pick up orders for a connection at an order fulfillment site. The method includes detecting a visitor at an order fulfillment site, determining a connection of the visitor, where the connection has a wish-list of items associated with the order fulfillment site, determin...