US Patent Issued to Federal Express on April 15 for "Enhanced multi-compartment logistics receptacle apparatus, systems, and methods for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item and causing a backend server to initiate a dispatched logistics operation" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,528, issued on April 15, was assigned to Federal Express Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Enhanced multi-compartment logistics receptacle apparatus, systems, and methods for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item and causing a backend server to initiate a dispatched logistics operation" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaaksrud (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced multi-compartment connected logistics receptacle system includes a storage receptacle, a bridge node, and wireless accessory sensor node with a plurality of sensors. A first subset of the sensors is disposed relative to a first monitored receptacle...