ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,851, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method of delivering item along route" was invented by Jiwon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungjoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeeun Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hoon Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electronic device configured to generate a route including a point of departure and a first destination determined based on order information, while the electronic device is moved along the route using a driver, in response to not receiving an order from the first destination on which ...