ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,482, issued on June 17, was assigned to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

"Order fulfillment systems and methods with customer location tracking" was invented by Varun Reddy Agasti (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Leena Munjal (Algonquin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed that provide a pickup process for items purchased from a store. In some embodiments, a mobile computing device of a customer may determine whether the mobile computing device and therefore the customer are in a pickup zone for a store. In response to determining that the mobile computing device is in the pickup zo...