ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,240, issued on May 20, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"System and method for managing and distributing informational content across disparate systems" was invented by Roger Worner (Saint Peters, Mo.) and Jason Alan Tamayo (St. Augustine, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content management system for customizing and controlling data distribution is disclosed. Data items can be customized and dispersed to disparate reception terminals according to various control mechanisms where they can convey relevant information to local or remote stakeholders. Data items can be integrated into existing data distrib...