ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,891, issued on May 27, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Aerial vehicle delivery of items" was invented by Adam Shaw Warmoth (Los Altos, Calif.) and Cody Boyd (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery management system may select a set of preparation sites for the user using preparation site location data and a delivery site associated with the user. The set of preparation sites may comprise a virtual preparation site that is associated with a second preparation site. The delivery management system may serve menu data to a user computing device. The menu data may indicate at least a first item as...