ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,217, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Innovative Robot Delivery GMBH (Bonn, Germany).
"Method, depot facility and system for handover of a plurality of parcels to a plurality of recipients and/or to receive a large number of parcels from multiple depositors" was invented by Christian Borger (Bonn, Germany), Boris Mayer (Bonn, Germany) and Christof Schares (Bonn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for handover of a plurality of parcels to several recipients and/or for receipt of parcels from several depositors. The method includes determining a joint optimized handover point for handover of parcels to the res...