ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,584, issued on April 15, was assigned to EXOTEC PRODUCT FRANCE (Croix, France).

"Order delivery system and method" was invented by Romain Moulin (Lille, France), Renaud Heitz (Villeneuve-D'Ascq, France) and Gilles Baulard (Fontenilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically delivering an order to a pick-up location outside a building. Such a system includes: pouches adapted to receive a bag, associated with the control; a device for signalling and/or detecting presence of a customer in the vicinity of a pick-up location; and a height-mounted transport module, which includes: a suspension element for suspendin...