US Patent Issued on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods of package container return" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,569, issued on Aug. 11.

"Systems and methods of package container return" was invented by David Brian Ruth (Austin, Texas) and Yuan-Chang Lo (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery management server includes one or more processors configured to receive a return request notification indicating that a return is requested using a package container. The one or more processors are also configured to, based at least in part on receipt of the return request notification and a determination that a cover of the package container is in a closed state: store a trial end time, determine a trial duration based on a comparison...