US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Hazard mitigation of package delivery area" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,265, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hazard mitigation of package delivery area" was invented by Michael S. Gordon (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Matthew Beck (Danbury, Conn.) and Komminist Weldemariam (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more processors receive data associated with delivery of a package to a delivery drop-off area. The data includes delivery history of the drop-off area, current and predicted weather conditions, customer profile data, and package content information. The one or more processors detect surface conditions of the delivery drop-off area. The one or m...