US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 6 for "Autonomous loading and unloading of packages relating to a vehicle" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,323, issued on May 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Autonomous loading and unloading of packages relating to a vehicle" was invented by Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Venkata Ratnam Alubelli (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for routing one or more packages and delivering the one or more packages to one or more autonomous vehicles is disclosed. The approach receives shipment request from the one or more vendors, receives package status (e.g., status that the one or more packages is ready to be routed,...