ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,133, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Vehicle for parcel delivery" was invented by Hiroaki Kiyokami (Nisshin, Japan) and Masao Tajima (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parcel delivery vehicle includes a door opening provided in a left side part of a vehicle, a parcel storage compartment provided inside the vehicle to store a parcel, and a parcel handling device configured to convey the parcel between a first delivery reception position and a second delivery reception position and receive the parcel from the parcel storage compartment at the first delivery reception posit...