ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,998, issued on March 4, was assigned to Stoneridge Electronics AB (Solna, Sweden).

"System and process for dynamic information discovery between commercial shipping assets" was invented by Brad Corrodi (Princeton, N.J.) and Milan Gavrilovic (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A commercial shipping asset including a plurality of sensors disposed on the commercial shipping asset. A controller is communicatively connected to each sensor in the plurality of sensors. The controller further includes a master asset identifier and a receiver. The controller is configured to implement a dynamic information discovery protocol."

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