ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,626, issued on May 13, was assigned to Freightmonster.com Inc. (Hamilton, Mont.).

"Apparatus and method for improved processing" was invented by Larry C. Lockhart Jr. (Hamilton, Mont.), Arlen Anderson (Corvallis, Mont.) and Matt Wilson (Hamilton, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for improved processing of instructions to provide temporal selection to a client when scheduling a load to be transported for a prospective transportation industry customer. The apparatus includes a processor and a non-transitory machine readable memory. The processor is designed to process instructions to provide date and time s...