ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,876, issued on April 22, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Intelligent order pickup processing" was invented by Stefan Bjelcevic (Roswell, Ga.) and Jodessiah Sumpter (Alpharetta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Locations of a customer's device are tracked relative to an order placed with an establishment. The establishment is instructed to begin order preparation to coincide with the customer's arrival for the order. Customer's arrival at a pickup location is detected within a geofenced area for a premises of the establishment's location. Sensor data provided for the geofenced area is processed to track a vehicle of the c...