ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,770, issued on May 13, was assigned to Deutsche Post AG (Bonn, Germany).
"Consignment drop-off at mobile transport units" was invented by Anja Scheer (Konigswinter, Germany), Christoph Dautz (Bonn, Germany) and Lutz Fischer (Bonn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed at a mobile transport unit is disclosed. In the method, parameters are determined by using sensors of the transport unit. The parameters include characteristics of the transport unit and/or characteristics of a consignment transported by the transport unit. In the method, the parameters are transmitted to a routing system, which determines a transpor...