ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,525, issued on March 18, was assigned to DOORDASH INC. (San Francisco).
"Merchant signal location beacon" was invented by Ilya Polyakov (San Francisco), Albert Poon (San Francisco) and Rajat Shroff (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a signaling location beacon are provided. Specifically, a collection location for collecting, by an agent, an item is determined. Also, a physical beacon associated with the pickup location can be identified. Further, an interaction between the physical beacon and the agent can be detected. For example, the interaction can oc...