ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,027, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Delivery shelf system and its control method" was invented by Junya Ota (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kunihiro Iwamoto (Ichikawa, Japan), Yuta Itozawa (Tokyo-to, Japan), Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo-to, Japan), Takatoshi Morimitsu (Toyota, Japan) and Yutaro Takagi (Tokyo-to, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery shelf system includes a shelf extending from an exterior to an interior of a building, and a returnable box (RB) stored and slidably supported in the shelf. A first recessed part (FRP) is provided in an indoor-side end part of RB and a second recessed pa...