ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,300, issued on June 9, was assigned to StoreEase Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Systems and methods for enabling remote management of storage facilities" was invented by Joshua Hamilton Boyd (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for enabling remote management of storage facilities has a videoconferencing system that allows a remote sales agent to communicate with customers at any of a plurality of storage facilities. A presence of the customer is sensed by one or more sensor nodes, and the remote sales agent is alerted to the customer's presence. In response, a videoconference call with the sales agent is established so...