US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on July 1 for "Systems and methods utilizing mobile delivery devices in item delivery" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,825, issued on July 1, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"Systems and methods utilizing mobile delivery devices in item delivery" was invented by Anoosha Koohi (Mclean, Va.) and Charles P. McLellan (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for improving accuracy of a mobile delivery device traversing a route. The system includes a mobile delivery device, a geolocation circuit and an inertial navigation system in communication with the mobile device, and a processor configured to compare accuracy indicators to thresholds to determine when to switch sensing the position of the mobile deliv...