US Patent Issued to Federal Express on April 8 for "Methods, systems, and devices for detecting and resolving risks associated with shipped objects" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,858, issued on April 8, was assigned to Federal Express Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for detecting and resolving risks associated with shipped objects" was invented by Amber Moriah Williams (Memphis, Tenn.), Chris Swearingen (Memphis, Tenn.) and Cheri Bailey Shirokova (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for resolving a risk associated with a shipped physical object. The methods and servers comprise associating a time with a geographical region. The methods and servers also comprise receiving a set of locations associated with transport of a physical obje...