US Patent Issued to ObjectVideo Labs on July 14 for "Fetching and guarding packages using drones" (Maryland, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,310, issued on July 14, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).

"Fetching and guarding packages using drones" was invented by Ethan Shayne (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for fetching and guarding delivered packages using robots. One of the methods includes: determining a characteristic of a package at a first location; determining a risk score for the package at the first location; determining, using the risk score and the characteristic of the package, to perform an ...