ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,969, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to American Honda Motor Co. Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Systems, apparatuses and methods for a tiered structure to manage a chain of custody for package delivery" was invented by Jamie Davies (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Devon J Fujioka (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses and methods for a tiered structure to manage a chain of custody for package delivery. More particularly, this disclosure describes a last mile transporter for package deliveries whereby package whereabouts are monitored through transmitters. In an illustrative embodim...