US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on Oct. 7 for "Delivery drop points for autonomous delivery vehicles" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,836, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"Delivery drop points for autonomous delivery vehicles" was invented by Ryan M. Luckay (Vienna, Va.), Robert E. Dixon Jr. (Haymarket, Va.) and Gregory Cooil (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous delivery drop points for delivery of an item are provided. The autonomous delivery drop points can include a proxy sensor to communicate information related to the autonomous delivery drop point to an autonomous delivery vehicle. The autonomous delivery drop points can include a delivery inlet configured to accept the item. The autonomous deli...