US Patent Issued to FEDERAL EXPRESS on July 15 for "Systems, apparatus and methods involving an enhanced connected node-based logistics receptacle and methods of operating the same" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,370, issued on July 15, was assigned to FEDERAL EXPRESS Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Systems, apparatus and methods involving an enhanced connected node-based logistics receptacle and methods of operating the same" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaaksrud (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced node-based connected logistics receptacle system includes a storage receptacle, a bridge node, and wireless accessory sensor node with at least one sensor monitoring for a change in state of the storage receptacle. The system's wireless accessory sensor node detects the storage receptacle's state change based upon sensor data, re...