ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,654, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Delivery system and its delivery method" was invented by Kenta Miyahara (Tokyo-to, Japan), Junya Ota (Tokyo-to, Japan), Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenta Muramoto (Narashino, Japan), Shunta Shimizu (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Kazuto Konishi (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system includes a storage box, receiver terminals, a deliverer terminal, and a server. The deliverer terminal transmits, to the server, identification information of the storage box storing a delivery item and identification information of a destination recei...