Abstract
No assignee for this patent application has been made.News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Online shopping is increasingly important in a society tha t must practice social distancing and desiresdelivery of perishable goods that are refrigerated. Current methods are to have local grocery stores usehuman sta ff to hand select ordered items and deliver them to the customer, again carrying them by handand placing them at the customer’s doorstep. This does not solve t he problem of virus transmission fromthe employee to the customer or provide an acceptable ease of use for the consumer.”