ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,098, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ANYTREK Corp. (Ontario, Calif.).

"System and method for matching trucking vehicles" was invented by Haijian Zeng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation management system (TMS) includes shipping data concerning a cargo that has been loaded onto a trailer. The trailer has a trailer module comprising a microcontroller and memory upon which a trailer ID is saved. A tractor module can be electrically connected to a tractor, and can communicate with a driver device which is linked to a driver. Shipping data from the TMS is loaded onto the driver device, which communicates at...