ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,115, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Position Imaging Inc. (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Light-based guidance for package tracking systems" was invented by Rafal Piotrowski (Portsmouth, N.H.) and Edward L. Hill (Conway, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package tracking system comprises a package room for holding packages intended for delivery to one or more package recipients, an optical sensing device positioned to capture one or more images of each package brought to the package room, one or more light sources, and a computing system including a processor, memory, and executable code stored on the memory. The processor executes the ...