ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,365, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Delivery optimization" was invented by Owen David Styles (Essex, Great Britain) and William John Mallard (Essex, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of items includes a first item deliverable to a first delivery destination and a second item deliverable to a second delivery destination. The value of a first vehicle parameter dependent on a mass of the first item and a mass of the second item is calculated for a first delivery route, the first delivery route being configured to stop at the first delivery destination before the...