US Patent Issued to FEDERAL EXPRESS on March 25 for "Apparatus, systems, and methods for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item and dynamically initiating a dispatched logistics operation for a storage receptacle" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,368, issued on March 25, was assigned to FEDERAL EXPRESS Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item and dynamically initiating a dispatched logistics operation for a storage receptacle" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaaksrud (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item and dynamically initiating a dispatched logistics operation for a storage receptacle. The storage receptacle has an entrance opening for receiving the delivery item, a temporary storage area for temporarily maintaining the deliv...