ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,066, issued on March 24, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Freight management system" was invented by D. Brice Achkir (Livermore, Calif.), Kaushal Sanjay Mhalgi (San Jose, Calif.) and Gautam Khandelwal (Tracy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods that provide a blockchain network for entities to securely collaborate with respect to rate card data records and data transactions triggering various events. In these methods, a computing device obtains, from a first blockchain node of an enterprise, via a blockchain channel, a rate card data record that includes at least one unique identifier, primary inf...