US Patent Issued to PSI Systems on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for international shipping" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,424, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PSI Systems Inc. (Pablo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for international shipping" was invented by John Roland Clem (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Shea Robert Felix (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods providing an itinerant processing methodology wherein one or more processes, functions, etc. may be performed as an item to be shipped is transported from a shipper to an intermediary processing provider or other shipment processing point. For example, embodiments may comprise an itinerant prepay process in which international fees may be collected prior to ...