ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,990, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"System and method for remotely printing digital images for pickup at a retail store" was invented by Tim P. McCauley (Evanston, Ill.), Joseph M. Rago (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Mathew Alexander (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method and system allow a user to launch a client application on an web-enabled device and subsequently to navigate to an image source screen within the client application. After receiving an image source selection from the user, the client application retrieves images from the selected image source. The client application disp...