US Patent Issued on Oct. 14 for "Automated allocation of shared resources in transportation networks" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,901, issued on Oct. 14.

"Automated allocation of shared resources in transportation networks" was invented by Michael Woltcheck (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated allocation of shared resources in transportation networks are described herein. A facility computing device can be configured to store data corresponding to a location of a transportation facility. A vehicle computing device can be associated with a vehicle and configured to provide navigation directions for the vehicle. A yard database can store information corresponding to a location of a yard for staging trailers. A trailer computin...