ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,298, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Coupang Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Computer-implemented systems and methods for real-time risk-informed return item collection using an automated kiosk" was invented by Yonghui Chen (San Diego), Xin Jin (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yan Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods related to collecting return items using an automated kiosk based on a real time risk decision. The automated kiosk captures return item information representing a return item and transmits the return item information and a request for return risk level relating to ...