ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,211, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for automated modification of delivery parameters" was invented by Matthew Kenneth Bellamy (Kirkland, Wash.), Manoj Nibhoria (Bellevue, Wash.), Brian Michael Rock (Austin, Texas), Charlton Wong (Toronto), Mohammad Reza Shakouri (Austin, Texas) and Christopher William Canal (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automated modification of delivery parameters. Particularly, computing model that is trained to determine a probability that a delivery defect is likely to occur for a given delivery or set...