ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,646, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Hammel Cos. Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for initiating a completed lading request" was invented by Joseph Charles Dohrn (Woodland Park, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for initiating a completed lading request includes a computing device configured to obtain a lading request from a client device, wherein the lading request comprises a communication detail datum, determine an logical route, wherein determining the logical route further comprises receiving a conveyor indicator, identifying a spot signature as a function of the conveyor indicator, training a route machine-l...