US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Contactless item delivery confirmation" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,092, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Contactless item delivery confirmation" was invented by Maulin Sheth (Central Islip, N.Y.) and Krunal Soni (Holbrook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: capturing an item identifier associated with an item for delivery to a recipient; generating a machine-readable indicium encoding (i) a network identifier of a server, and (ii) the item identifier; controlling an output device to present the machine-readable indicium for capture by a recipient computing device and transmission of delivery confirmation data from the recipient co...