ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,429, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ROCKSPOON INC (San Jose, Calif.).

"En-route business selection, routing and order preparation timing system" was invented by Nagib Georges Mimassi (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for en-route business selection, routing, and order preparation timing. The system is a cloud-based network containing an optimization server, portals for restaurants, customers, and drivers to enter their information, and an optimization engine which determines optimal pickup and delivery times for delivery drivers based on a multitude of variables associated with the business e...