ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,497, issued on March 17, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Radio frequency identification shipping labels" was invented by Phivos Costas Aristides (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to generating radio frequency identification (RFID) shipping labels. A request to access shipping options is received, via a mobile application operating on a mobile device of a user, whereby the shipping options include an option to program a RFID tag associated with a package to be shipped. In response to receiving the request, the shipping options are presented on a user interface displayed on the mob...