ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,645, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BlueX Trade Inc. (Diamond Bar, Calif.).

"Container utilization" was invented by Vivian Chiang (Taipei, Taiwan), Huang-Yu Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Sean O'Malley (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transparent end-to-end freight management is disclosed. A system for transparent end-to-end freight management can include carrier devices, cargo endpoint devices, teleconnected containers, a container and transport parameter provisional allocation engine, a transparent container and transport parameter disposition engine, a freight forwarding oversight engine, a container maintenance engi...