ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,913, issued on April 22, was assigned to United Parcel Service of America Inc. (Atlanta).
"Container to facilitate selective delivery of parcels" was invented by Julio Gil (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Julian Bell (Decatur, Ga.) and Fredric Michael Lopez (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent container system is provided that accommodates a variety of sizes and shapes of parcels, and that allows the parcels to be dispensed from the container one at a time, in any order. The container system has an open face, such as the bottom. A first panel cooperates with a second panel to selectively close the open bottom, and to select...