ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,448, issued on Oct. 20.

"Systems and methods for management of dual sided delivery locker array" was invented by Bhavin Asher (Boca Raton, Fla.), Farshad Tafazzoli (Delray Beach, Fla.) and Smit Patel (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of operating a locker array including a plurality of merchant doors a plurality of customer doors is provided. A customer order is received. A merchant code is created. A customer code is created. A notification is received from a merchant that preparation of the customer order is complete. A locker is selected from the locker array for fulfillment of the customer order...