US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on May 5 for "Systems and methods for delivering items having encoded delivery points" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,942, issued on May 5, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"Systems and methods for delivering items having encoded delivery points" was invented by Robert E. Dixon Jr. (Haymarket, Va.), Gary C. Reblin (Falls Church, Va.) and Naomi Miller (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for delivering items are disclosed. The systems and methods comprise assigning a unique internal control value to each profile having an identified physical address delivery point. They also receive a request for delivery point information for each of a plurality of items to be distributed and providing a response com...