US Patent Issued to Federal Express on Feb. 10 for "Methods and systems for motion-based management of an enhanced logistics container" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,925, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Federal Express Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Methods and systems for motion-based management of an enhanced logistics container" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaaksrud (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motion-based management of a logistics container uses elements of a wireless node network including a container node associated with the logistics container and equipped with a motion sensor. The motion sensor detects a motion status (e.g., moving, stationary, accelerating, decelerating) for the logistics container. The container node compares the motion status to a prior motion status,...