ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,963, issued on June 16, was assigned to TULIPS Corp. (Milwaukie, Ore.).
"System and method for intermodal materials delivery" was invented by Eric Fosgard (Milwaukie, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the intermodal delivery of materials comprising, specially-adapted transit stations (TULIPS stations) where already-going-there (AGT) transit and other vehicles may be automatically determined, positioned, unloaded and loaded via gantry crane with materials to be delivered that were temporarily-stored at at least one of the specially-adapted stations. Carriers may dock within a transit vehicle and may also be s...