ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,216, issued on May 12, was assigned to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"Product delivery system and method" was invented by Steven Carlevato (Woodridge, Ill.), Casparus Cate (Murfreesboro, Tenn.), Edward Thomas Laird (Lombard, Ill.), James Scott Murray (West Chicago, Ill.), Robert John Olmsted (Wood Dale, Ill.) and Herman Ji-Heng Yau (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method associated with delivery of a product to a container. The method comprising, at a server computer, receiving container information from the container. The container information includes a capacity of the container detec...