Abstract
According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors Anand, Radhika (Sunnyvale, CA, US); Chang, Rockson (Somerville, MA, US); Chen, Michael (San Francisco, CA, US); Dou, Aaron (Santa Clara, CA, US); Sampat, Ajay (San Francisco, CA, US); Sturm, Nicholas (Denver, CO, US); Yin, Licheng (Burlingame, CA, US); Zhang, Chen (San Jose, CA, US), filed on July 29, 2022, was made available online on February 1, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Online shopping concierge platforms may link shoppers with customers, enabling customers to request and receive products located at various remote geographic locations. To increase the efficiency of such platforms, customers, shoppers, and locations may be matched based on a wide variety of criteria, and/or the like.”