US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Sept. 16 for "System for facilitating drive up order fulfillment" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,485, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"System for facilitating drive up order fulfillment" was invented by Ted Nelson (Minneapolis), Jathin Jayan (Minneapolis), Roy Tewalt (Minneapolis), Andy Rudge (Minneapolis), Adam May (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Josiah Gulden (Minneapolis) and Dan Carlson (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network based order fulfillment systems having an improved user interface at both a customer device and at an order fulfillment location employee device. Both customer and employee devices scan collect user input and other information using one or more sensors o...