ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,408, issued on May 20, was assigned to Beijing Wodong Tianjun Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for positioning express parcel" was invented by Peng Zhou (Beijing), Yuntao Wang (Beijing) and Mo Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for locating an express package. The method includes: receiving an express locating request, where the express locating request is used to locate an express waybill corresponding to a target express package from an express image presenting express packages, and the express locating request i...