ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,737, issued on July 29.

"Home wall insert mailbox with convenient box transfer features" was invented by Jeffrey Robert Kutas (Granbury, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention teaches a residential wall penetrating mailbox with enhanced box handling capability, openable by barcode scanning, and openable from either inside or outside a home. A body which is generally column shaped has a front door which open at the top and hinge near the bottom and which has transfer means extending from the bottom and interior end of the front door into the interior space of the mailbox, said transfer means transferring and moving...