US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN GROUP on April 8 for "Limited location tracking of a user device for local pickup" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,860, issued on April 8, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Limited location tracking of a user device for local pickup" was invented by Seejo K. Pylappan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jaron I. Waldman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive an indication that an order associated with a user account is ready for pickup. One or more messages to a user device associated with the user account are transmitted in response to the received indication that the order is ready. The one or more messages include identification of the order as being ready for pickup, a pickup locati...