Patent 7844507 was granted and assigned to Laundry Locker, Inc. on November, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In an embodiment, articles are left in storage areas, such as lockers or other receptacles, which may be associated with a household services company. In an embodiment, after depositing the articles in the storage area the articles are associated with the user by the household services company based on a claim by a user of using the storage are and/or tags associated with the articles.