ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,651, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).
"System and method for detection of container presence on chassis" was invented by Jason Wayne Jantzi (St. Clements, Canada), Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad (Waterloo, Canada) and Cortez Corley (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asset detection device and method of using a mmWave radar to determine whether a container is mounted to a transport chassis. The reflected signal may include multiple peaks and may be ambiguous. The device may determine if a peak is within a container range and is above a threshold magnitude. If the peak is not the high...