ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,023, issued on March 3, was assigned to Luxer Corp. (McClellan, Calif.).

"Method for controlling package delivery" was invented by Arik Seth Levy (Sacramento, Calif.), Bryan Robert Peebler (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and David Patrick O'Riva (Rocklin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided in which information about a barcode on a package is received or more generally, information placed on a package by a delivery service (such as a barcode or other code) is detected. Characteristics of the information or code are extracted. The characteristics of the information or code are compared to characteristics o...