US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 20 for "Monitoring produce quality in the supply chain at the pallet level with wireless signals" (Washington, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,663, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Monitoring produce quality in the supply chain at the pallet level with wireless signals" was invented by Vaishnavi Nattar Ranganathan (Seattle), Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.) and Nakul Garg (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements transmitting an RF signal using a transmitter disposed at a first side of a produce container containing produce to be monitored for quality. The signal is transmitted on multiple frequencies. The system further implements receiving the signal using a receiver dispo...