US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Collapsible and pop up lock box with mountable storage container and tether" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,401, issued on July 21.

"Collapsible and pop up lock box with mountable storage container and tether" was invented by Dylan Jackson Bernetich (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to protect delivered items, the system comprising: a storage container, a collapsible lock box container; a tether attached to the storage container and the collapsible lock box container; where the collapsible lock box container is configured automatically deploy from a folded stored configuration when inside the storage container, to a unfolded configuration ready to accept a delivered item when removed from the storage container."

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