US Patent Issued to eyaL E-Commerce on April 29 for "Substitutions of remotely-ordered grocery items" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,245, issued on April 29, was assigned to eyaL E-Commerce LLC (Fresno, Texas).

"Substitutions of remotely-ordered grocery items" was invented by Alexica T. Laye (Fresno, Texas) and Jade O. Laye (Fresno, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides various methods and embodiments for substitution of remotely-ordered grocery items. When a customer places a grocery request, the system determines whether substitution items are available for the requested items and, if so, will communicate the substitution items to the customer. Upon acceptance of the substitution items, the system will schedule delivery of the subst...