US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE on May 12 for "Digital stamps" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,213, issued on May 12, was assigned to UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (Washington).

"Digital stamps" was invented by Anthony Cramer Jones (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Dominik Heinrich (New York) and Caspar Serge Ouvaroff (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, interface devices, and media for the delivery of physical items using a digital stamp. Various implementations include operations such as receiving a request from a user to deliver an item to a destination using a digital stamp, wherein the item includes destination information and lacks any physical indicator that the delivery fee for the item has been paid or will be pai...