US Patent Issued to FourKites on April 21 for "Geofences for shipping facilities and methods for estimating milestone events in shipping facilities" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,676, issued on April 21, was assigned to FourKites Inc. (Chicago).

"Geofences for shipping facilities and methods for estimating milestone events in shipping facilities" was invented by Sriram Nagaswamy (Chicago), Yogeswaran Ganesan (Chicago), Ashwin G. Krishnan (Chicago), Ajay Hayagreeve (Chicago) and Mahantesh M. Ambi (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer readable medium, and circuits for tracking shipment services. A method includes: obtaining, from a mobile computing device, a shipment information associated with a booking of a load and asset information corresponding t...