US Patent Issued to Federal Express on Sept. 8 for "Apparatus, systems, and methods for monitoring and initiating a logistics response related to a node-enabled logistics receptacle to be serviced by a logistics asset" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,696, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Federal Express Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for monitoring and initiating a logistics response related to a node-enabled logistics receptacle to be serviced by a logistics asset" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaaksrud (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method and system for monitoring and initiating a logistics response related to a node-enabled logistics receptacle to be serviced by a logistics asset. A sensor-based node disposed within the node-enabled logistics receptacle detects movement associated with the node-enabled logistics recepta...