ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,638, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Interactive system for planning future shipments" was invented by Mihir Shah (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for advising a user regarding a potential shipment includes a user interface for receiving user input regarding a plurality of characteristics of the potential shipment. The user inputs at least one of the characteristics and the system suggests others of the characteristics. A processor determines whether the characteristics of the user input in combination indicate or correspond to at least one issue that is lik...