US Patent Issued to Federal Express on Sept. 15 for "Methods of performing a dispatched store-to-consumer logistics operation for an ordered item and using a modular autonomous bot apparatus assembly and a dispatch server" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,116, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Federal Express Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Methods of performing a dispatched store-to-consumer logistics operation for an ordered item and using a modular autonomous bot apparatus assembly and a dispatch server" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaakrud (Germantown, Tenn.), Frank Mayfield (Collierville, Tenn.) and Daniel Gates (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are described that perform dispatched store-to-consumer logistics operations for an ordered item using a modular autonomous bot apparatus assembly and a dispatch server. A dispatch command is received from the dispatch ser...