ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,605, issued on Dec. 30.

"Apparatus and method for line haul logistics management" was invented by Christina Reczek (Pittsburgh) and Scott Greacen (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for line haul logistics management, the apparatus including a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory includes instructions configuring the processor to receive a transport request including transport data, generate projected transportation data based on the transport data, receive progress data associated with the transport, calculate a deviation index based on the projected transportat...