US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on Aug. 12 for "System and method for automatically recognizing delivery point information" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,476, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"System and method for automatically recognizing delivery point information" was invented by Ryan J. Simpson (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to a system for automatically recognizing geographical area information provided on an item. The system may include an optical scanner configured to capture geographical area information provided on an item, the geographical area information comprising a plurality of geographical area components. The system may also include a controller in data communication with the optical sc...