ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,213, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and delivery system" was invented by Daiki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The management server 2 calculates a total weight of a plurality of articles loaded on the UAV 1 on the basis of weights of the articles included in each of a plurality of orders, and determines whether or not the unmanned aerial vehicle is capable of loading and delivering the articles included in each of the plurality of orders by comparing a loadable weight of the UAV 1 with the calculated total weight."

The patent w...