ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,983, issued on April 21, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Data stream enabled return mail services" was invented by Nicole Blohm (Mount Pleasant, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises one or more processors and one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause: receiving a digital image of a particular item of mail and storing the digital image; causing data to be extracted from the digital image using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) or by processing encoded data; based o...