ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,643, issued on April 14, was assigned to Vivint LLC (Provo, Utah).

"Occupancy identification for guiding delivery personnel" was invented by Brandon Bunker (Highland, Utah), Rongbin Lanny Lin (Draper, Utah) and Jefferson Huhta Lyman (Alpine, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for occupancy identification for guiding delivery personnel are described. One method for a security or home automation system may include receiving an indication regarding a delivery of a package to a structure associated with the security or home automation system, determining an occupancy of the structure based on the recei...