ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,634, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to R & L Carriers Inc. (Wilmington, Ohio).

"Methods and systems for transportation dock management" was invented by Rafael Aleman (Centerville, Ohio), Chris Deck (Wilmington, Ohio) and Ronald F. Galason (New Lenox, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dock management systems including a dock management server communicatively coupled to a mobile computing device are disclosed. The dock management server generates a work assignment based on a first location for an item and a final location for the item, transmits the first work assignment to the mobile computing device, receives a location of the mob...