US Patent Issued to FEDERAL EXPRESS on July 22 for "Enhanced connected logistics receptacle apparatus, systems, and methods that selectively retrieve and report event information to a backend server to initiate a dispatched logistics operation related to a delivery item" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,453, issued on July 22, was assigned to FEDERAL EXPRESS Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Enhanced connected logistics receptacle apparatus, systems, and methods that selectively retrieve and report event information to a backend server to initiate a dispatched logistics operation related to a delivery item" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaaksrud (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced connected logistics receptacle system that selectively retrieves and reports event information to a backend server to initiate a dispatched logistics operation related to a delivery item. The system includes a storage receptacle for receivin...