US Patent Issued on March 31 for "Device and system for an autonomous mobile robot, drone, and/or courier to deliver, hold, protect, and return parcels for multi-users in both residential and commercial applications" (Indiana, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,840, issued on March 31.

"Device and system for an autonomous mobile robot, drone, and/or courier to deliver, hold, protect, and return parcels for multi-users in both residential and commercial applications" was invented by Daniel S O'Toole (Carmel, Ind.), Torrey M. Bievenour (Indianapolis), Neerav Shah (Indianapolis), Mark Hamm (Germantown, Tenn.) and John D Ritchison (Anderson, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and system for an automatic robot, drone, and/or courier to deliver, hold, protect, and return parcels. The multi-user system has DRONEDEK docking features and include a small footprint combination; nine to 400 ...