ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,904, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to STARSHIP TECHNOLOGIES OU (Tallinn, Estonia).

"Method and system for autonomous or semi-autonomous delivery" was invented by Ahti Heinla (Tallinn, Estonia), Allan Martinson (Tallinn, Estonia), Kalle-Rasmus Volkov (Tallinn, Estonia), Andrew Macks (Aaamae, Estonia), Lindsay Roberts (Tallinn, Estonia), Indrek Mandre (Tallinn, Estonia), Mart Liivik (Laane-Virumaa, Estonia), Tiit Liivik (Tallinn, Estonia) and Ivo Liivik (Harju maakond, Estonia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery method includes providing a system with at least one server, at least one robot, and at least one delivery terminal. ...