US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for item tracking during logistics operations" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,956, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for item tracking during logistics operations" was invented by Timothy B. Austin (Stony Brook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for item tracking are disclosed herein. The method determines at least one of first and second states of a container based on first data received from a first sensor associated with the container. Responsive to determining the container first state, the method modifies a communication protocol of a first device of the container, receives, by the first device, first information of a...