ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,884, issued on June 3, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Intelligent order consolidation" was invented by Visagan Viathyanathan (Minneapolis), Aaron Riekenberg (Minneapolis) and Anju Yadav (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for improved consolidation of orders at a particular node for each item in a guest shopping cart, including an intelligent node inclusion application/service. In some examples, a predetermined number of the closest store nodes and a predetermined number of online nodes are analyzed using an Available to Promise (ATP) service to determine whether multi...