US Patent Issued to Federal Express on Nov. 3 for "Proactively monitored and reporting logistics receptacle apparatus, systems, and methods for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,332, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Federal Express Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Proactively monitored and reporting logistics receptacle apparatus, systems, and methods for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaaksrud (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proactively monitored and reporting logistics receptacle system for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item. The system includes a storage receptacle for receiving the delivery item, a bridge node mounted to the storage receptacle, and a wireless accessory sensor node to monitor each of the monitored storage c...