ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,412, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Composite shipping labels for multi-location deliveries" was invented by Javier Mozo Olea (Seattle) and Vincent Arthus (Olm, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Composite shipping labels for multi-location deliveries are described herein. In an example, a computer system receives a request for a delivery of an item to a delivery location associated with an intermediate location. The item is to be delivered to the intermediate location prior to being delivered to the delivery location. The computer system causes a printing of a label for the item. The l...