ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,895, issued on May 27, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Container touch-pairing device" was invented by Jonathan Gabbai (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods change a user interface for the purpose of pairing a shipping container with an item that is intended to be shipped in the shipping container. Example embodiments include a machine-implemented method for accessing a shipping request, detecting a radio signal from a candidate container using a radio receiver, detecting an impact between a pairing device and a query container using an accelerometer, determining that the query container is the can...