ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,880, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Delivery locker management system" was invented by Yuki Tatsumoto (Seto, Japan), Ryutaro Tomita (Tokyo), Mami Noguchi (Nagoya, Japan), Kenichiro Sugihara (Kounosu, Japan), Hiroyuki Nakajima (Tokyo) and Yuko Nagai (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery locker management system includes a delivery locker station including multiple delivery lockers having two or more different sizes, and a server that communicates with the delivery locker station. The server obtains information on a size of a parcel to be deposited. The server extracts delive...