ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,018, issued on March 3, was assigned to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"System and method for enabling unattended package delivery to multi-dwelling properties" was invented by David R. Morris (Glenview, Ill.) and Cory Jon Sorice (LaGrange, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method is provided including receiving, at a server computer, a communication that indicates controllability of an access control device by a client application associated with an e-commerce service. The access control device associated with a property and configured to selectively allow access to the property relative to interacti...