ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,000, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Motogo LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods of package container return" was invented by David Brian Ruth (Austin, Texas) and Yuan-Chang Lo (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery management server includes one or more processors configured to receive a return request notification indicating that a return is requested using a package container. The one or more processors are also configured to, based at least in part on receipt of the return request notification and a determination that a cover of the package container is in a closed state: store a trial end time, determin...