US Patent Issued to Federal Express on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus, systems, and methods for performing a dispatched logistics operation for a deliverable item from a hold-at-location logistics facility using a modular autonomous bot apparatus assembly, a dispatch server and an enhanced remotely actuated logistics receptacle apparatus" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,044, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Federal Express Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for performing a dispatched logistics operation for a deliverable item from a hold-at-location logistics facility using a modular autonomous bot apparatus assembly, a dispatch server and an enhanced remotely actuated logistics receptacle apparatus" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaaksrud (Germantown, Tenn.), Frank Mayfield (Collierville, Tenn.) and Daniel Gates (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and enhanced apparatus used in such methods are described that a dispatched logistics operation for a delivera...