US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE on Aug. 4 for "Digitally informed delivery with custom electronic supplements for hardcopy mail" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,954, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (Washington).

"Digitally informed delivery with custom electronic supplements for hardcopy mail" was invented by Michael J. Amato (Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for digitally accompanied delivery of delivery items, such as mail or packages. A delivery item has supporting digital data, such as electronic text, a digital file, an image, a web page(s), or the like. The delivery item includes an indicia, such as a bar code, that provides access to, or references, the digital resource. When the delivery item is processed during t...