ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,841, issued on July 1, was assigned to CIRCLESX LLC (Houston).

"System and method for a transportation or freight capacity exchange for one or more transportation or freight capacity units" was invented by Erik M. Simpson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of various methods and systems of a network, GPS system, mobile computing devices, servers, forward commodity market servers, grouping software for hubs, transparent open access pricing systems, blockchain audit and safety methods and systems, virtual hub systems, algorithm methods for no arbitrage conditions in a simple easy to use graphical user interface form...