ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,231, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Omniloop AB (Varberg, Sweden).

"Tube-carrier based logistics system and method for performing logistics services with such system" was invented by Sten Wandel (Varberg, Sweden), Fredrik Eng Larsson (Stockholm), Andreas Wells (Trangsund, Sweden), Sofia Ohnell (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Anders Johnson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logistics service system (10) comprising at least one tube (14, 16, 43) connecting at least one terminal (11, 12, 70), at least one carrier (17) configured to hold goods (48) to be handled in the logistics service system (10), at least one switching...