US Patent Issued to FEDERAL EXPRESS on March 3 for "Methods and systems for managing shipped objects" (Tennessee, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,017, issued on March 3, was assigned to FEDERAL EXPRESS Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Methods and systems for managing shipped objects" was invented by Amber Moriah Williams (Memphis, Tenn.), Amy Mays (Memphis, Tenn.), Cheri Bailey Shirokova (Germantown, Tenn.), John Marshall Veitenheimer (Arlington, Tenn.), Jessica Jordan Shoup (Olive Branch, Miss.) and Surendra Ajmera (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for managing shipped physical objects. The methods and systems comprise receiving data associated with a journey of the shipped object and determining, using a processor, alert conditions b...