ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,993, issued on May 26.

"Vehicles for package delivery, systems for same, and associated methods" was invented by Yifan Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), John Randolf Vincent (Livonia, Mich.), Geoffrey Horowitz (Birmingham, Mich.), Kurt Michael Lundeen (Novi, Mich.), Sarah Garrow (Coral Gables, Fla.) and Sam Hoff (Hazel Park, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle for package delivery is provided. The vehicle includes one or more processors; a tile floor system connected to the one or more processors, the tile floor system comprising a plurality of tiles with actuators that individually move containers thereon, and in a first arrangemen...