Abstract
The patent’s assignee is Ocado Innovation Limited (Hatfield, Hertfordsh, United Kingdom). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “During the last 20 years the breathtaking increase of e-co mmerce, boosted by the exponential proliferation of the internet and the use of smart phones, inflicted deep changes on the way products are transferred from th e retail operators to the end customers.