US Patent Issued to FEDERAL EXPRESS on May 27 for "Systems, apparatus, and methods for quantifying space within a container using a removable scanning sensor node" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,799, issued on May 27, was assigned to FEDERAL EXPRESS Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for quantifying space within a container using a removable scanning sensor node" was invented by Reuben F. Burch V (Rossville, Tenn.) and William Cawein (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems are described for quantifying space within a container using a removable scanning sensor node. In general, the removable scanning sensor node identifies a type of the container, uses at least one depth sensor on the removable scanning sensor node to scan the space within the container to gener...