ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,118, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Encoded package address for delivery" was invented by Krishnan Raghavan (Bangalore, India), Vijayprakash Idlur (Bengaluru, India) and A G Prasad (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of encoded package address for delivery, a server device generates an interactive encoded address for display on a package for delivery. The interactive encoded address is mapped to an address of an intended recipient of the package. The server device receives a request from a mobile device, or client device, to retrieve the address via the interactive encoded a...