ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,959, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Coupang Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Optimizing order fulfillment processes" was invented by Venkataraja Nellore (Seoul, South Korea), Harshal Wanjari (Seattle), Zhixin Liu (Seoul, South Korea), Manish Garg (Seoul, South Korea), Vikram Balaji (Seoul, South Korea), Jiung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Paul Stroup (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of order fulfillment at a fulfillment center includes: identifying a first number of available collection units available for processing a corresponding first number of orders, identifying, from a list of unfulfilled orders at the fulfillme...