Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Smartphone-controlled mailbox system
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Application No.: US16900444Application Date: 2020-06-12
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Publication No.: US10909496B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Robert Dana Lundahl
- Applicant: Advanced Technology & Research Corp.
- Applicant Address: US MD Columbia
- Assignee: Advanced Technology & Research Corp.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Technology & Research Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: US MD Columbia
- Agency: Fresh IP PLC
- Agent Cliff Hyra; Aubrey Chen
- Main IPC: G06Q10/08
- IPC: G06Q10/08 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W4/70

Abstract:
A mailbox system includes a remote computing device and a mailbox. The remote computing device is configured to communicate with a user device and to receive and review user authorization information and transmit an authorization message indicating successful authorization. The mailbox has a mail piece receiving mechanism, a mailbox identifier, a label printer, a locking mechanism, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to communicate with a user device having received an authorization message, to control the label printer to print a mailing label corresponding to services selected by a user via the user device, to control the locking mechanism in response to communications from the user device to allow the user to place a mail piece in the mail piece receiving mechanism and to lock the mail piece receiving mechanism after the mail piece is placed therein, and to communicate with the remote computing device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200311671A1 SMARTPHONE-CONTROLLED MAILBOX SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2020-10-01
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