ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,475, issued on April 15, was assigned to ACUITIVE SOLUTIONS INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Software systems for facilitating object transport" was invented by Phillip Marlowe (Weddington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example of the present disclosure can include a server that can determine transport routes for individual objects based on rules. The transport routes can include an intermediary at which the individual objects are to be consolidated into a single container. The server can also receiving a request from a client computer for an object label corresponding to one of the individual objects. In response to receiving the r...