US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 24 for "Package hand-over apparatus, package hand-over method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,433, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Package hand-over apparatus, package hand-over method, and program" was invented by Issei Nakashima (Tokyo-to, Japan), Toru Miyagawa (Seto, Japan), Hideo Hasegawa (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Kinoshita (Tokyo-to, Japan), Morihiro Masada (Nagoya, Japan) and Tomoaki Sakaguchi (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package hand-over apparatus, a package hand-over method, and a program that can efficiently hand over an item that is preferably handed over to a receiver after a face-to-face confirmation are provided. A package hand-over apparatus inclu...