ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,731, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FourKites Inc. (Chicago).

"Supply chain management, tracking, and integration platform" was invented by Chris Stauber (Danville, Calif.), Adam G. Pasztory (San Francisco), Sajid Ali Mudassar (Lahore, Pakistan), Muhammad Waqas Khan (Lahore, Pakistan) and Jeffrey Wehner (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for supply chain management, tracking, and integration. An example method can include receiving, via one or more processors, a document associated with a booking of a shipment; extracting, via the one or more processors, data in the d...