ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,866, issued on July 29, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Personalized delivery time estimate system" was invented by Gurushyam Hariharan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Faisal Masud (Sammamish, Wash.), Prakash Muppirala (San Jose, Calif.) and Raj Desai (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personalized delivery estimate system is described. A commercial transaction is generated between a seller and a buyer for an item in an online marketplace. Historical transactions of buyers and sellers in the online marketplace are stored in a storage device. A personalized delivery time estimate is computed for the buyer of the...