ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,400, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Shopify Inc (Ottawa).

"Mobile fulfillment container apparatus, systems, and related methods" was invented by Daanish Maan (Brampton, Canada), Michael Joseph DeFazio (Fonthill, Canada), Jonathan Kim (Toronto), Andrew Ferrier (Montreal), David Waddell (Nelson, Canada) and Silvana Zaldivar (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mobile fulfillment container apparatus, systems, and related methods are disclosed. An example mobile container includes a storage area to move between a locked state and an unlocked state to provide access to inventory in the storage area; an electronic gating sensor to d...