ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,900, issued on May 27, was assigned to Stress Engineering Services Inc. (Mason, Ohio).

"E-commerce mixed parcel packaging and shipping process and systems" was invented by Clinton A. Haynes (Mason, Ohio) and Douglas Lewis Marriott (South Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixed parcel packaging system generates packaging instructions for mixed parcel orders, which includes shipping box size, product orientation, and selection and placement of packaging materials. The packaging instructions are based on quantitative product attributes of the products to be shipped, such that the fill volume of the shipping box is minimized...