ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,504, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rehrig Pacific Co. (Monterey Park, Calif.).
"Camera enabled portal" was invented by Peter Douglas Jackson (Alpharetta, Ga.), Jason Crawford Miller (Bedford, Texas), Hisham Khalid A. Alshmmasi (Frisco, Texas) and Matthew Smith (Fenton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery portal, which may be at a loading dock, includes a sensor configured to detect a pallet, platform or stack of goods as it passes through the portal. A computer is programmed to receive information from the sensor and to identify the pallet based upon the information. The computer is further programmed to compare the ...