ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,453, issued on June 17, was assigned to Deutsche Post AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for transferring access information to a box installation using a first mode of communication" was invented by Philipp Oberlander (Bonn, Germany), Thomas Baye (Bonn, Germany) and Marko Dietrich (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method in which first information from an apparatus or a system is obtained. The first information is used to determine a first mode of communication for transferring access information to a box installation. Using the first information, the first mode of communication for transferring ...