ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,216, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nimble Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"Automated delivery vehicle" was invented by Simon Kalouche (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An order fulfillment and delivery system for autonomously fulfilling orders while en route to a delivery location. The system includes a delivery vehicle having a storage area, a robotic system at least partially disposed within the storage area and one or more processors. The one or more processors being configured to receive an order of one or more inventory items, generate container retrieval instructions for the robotic system to perform based on ...