ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,643, issued on March 25, was assigned to United Parcel Service of America Inc. (Atlanta).
"Photo instructions and confirmation" was invented by David Carder (Cumming, Ga.), Ryan Fannon (Atlanta) and William McCauley (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for optimizing package delivery and confirmation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system's processors accesses a first image of an assigned delivery location captured by a first computing device. The first image comprises an annotation indicating a specific location at the assigned deli...