ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,885, issued on June 3, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Physical distribution management system and physical distribution management method" was invented by Hisato Sawanami (Kariya, Japan), Koji Kawaguchi (Kasugai, Japan) and Takuya Oda (Toyoake, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical distribution management system includes a storage device to store, for each of multiple delivery vehicles, an ID of a delivery vehicle, a package to be loaded onto the delivery vehicle, a shipping destination of the package, and an ID of the shipping gate where loading onto the delivery vehicle is performed, in association with each ...