ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,573, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hammel Cos. Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for selecting a candidate transfer apparatus" was invented by Joseph Charles Dohrn (Woodland Park, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a transfer apparatus based on user preferences includes receiving, by a computing device, at least a transfer invocation and a plurality of user preferences and generating, by the computing device, and for each candidate transfer apparatus of a plurality of candidate transfer apparatuses, a plurality of performance prognoses corresponding to the plurality of user preferences. The method ...