ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,979, issued on June 16.
"Systems and methods for facilitating package delivery or pickup" was invented by David L. Eichenblatt (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating package delivery or pickup at premises of senders or recipients has a package door that is used for receipt and collection of packages. The package door includes an input device for entering package information and an image capture device for visually recording the arrival of a courier. Based on the package information entered via the input device, the system determines whether the package information matches a predetermined value, such as a pa...