ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,366, issued on March 25.
"Custom printing of bulk mailing" was invented by Bryan Barrios (Thibodaux, La.), Clark McClendon (Carriere, Miss.) and Caitlin Wrend (Louisville, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer systems, and memory media for preparing instructions for printing a plurality of postage items. A graphical user interface (GUI) receives first user input. Responsive to the user input, an addressee data file is uploaded, features are extracted from a plurality of columns of the addressee data file, and the plurality of columns are associated with respective address field types based on the extracted features....