ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,842, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Techniques for intelligent charging of shipping container power supplies" was invented by Joseph Robert Brannan (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for intelligent charging of shipping container power supplies. An exemplary computer-implemented method may include (1) retrieving container data that includes a power supply indication for a set of shipping containers; (2) identifying one or more shipping containers, wherein the power supply indication for each of the shipping contai...