US Patent Issued on March 31 for "Systems and methods for aiding in the delivery of packages using vehicle sensors" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,838, issued on March 31.

"Systems and methods for aiding in the delivery of packages using vehicle sensors" was invented by Krishna Bandi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Nancy Lewis (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Swetha Shailendra (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Chitra Varanasi (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alert system is for a vehicle. The alert system includes a sensor, a processor electrically connected to the sensor, and a memory. The memory has instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including causing the sensor to scan for a presence, receiving instructions corresponding to an ac...