ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,627, issued on April 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Virtual e-pallet interface" was invented by Hojjat Izadi (North York, Canada), Mahdokht Ezati (Pickering, Canada), Mohammad Hossein Beheshti (Oshawa, Canada), Jonathan From (Peterborough, Canada), Martin Juhas (Oshawa, Canada), Johnson Qu (Vaughan, Canada) and Carlos Arreaza (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for controlling movement of an e-pallet includes one or more sensors configured to obtain sensor data as to a user of the e-pallet, a second e-pallet, or both; and a processor coupled to the one or more senso...