ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,155, issued on July 8, was assigned to Expose Retail Strategies Inc. (St. Catharines, Calif.).

"Scheduling of order processing for remotely ordered goods" was invented by David Napper (St. Catharines, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for scheduling processing of an order for goods at a provider location obtains an arrival estimate for when a user associated with the order is expected to arrive at the provider location and uses the arrival estimate to schedule processing of the order. Processing may be scheduled so that completion of order processing is expected to substantially coincide with arrival ...