ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,439, issued on March 18, was assigned to All Terminal Services LLC (Westmont, Ill.).

"Control system for container terminal and related methods" was invented by Mark D. Mills (Odessa, Fla.), Artem Igorevich Davtyan (New Port Richey, Fla.), Matthew Michael McDermott (Weeki Wachee, Fla.), Jorge A. Perez Rincon (Odessa, Fla.) and Christopher Alexander (Tarpon Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system is for a container terminal with containers. The control system includes a server, and a terminal tractor operable within the container terminal. The terminal tractor comprises onboard tractor sensors configured to gene...