ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,966, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Dynamic purchase interface for real-time middle-mile purchase and delivery" was invented by Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz (Blacksburg, Va.), Akshay Pai Raikar (Blacksburg, Va.), William Davis (Blacksburg, Va.), Justin Yurkanin (Blacksburg, Va.) and Dakota James Hebert (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods generating a dynamic purchase interface within an on-demand purchase app installed and executed on a client device. An inventory management system (IMS) is configured to store, for each inventory unit within a...