ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,427, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to United Parcel Service of America Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Enforcing data consistency in a transportation network" was invented by Balakrishna Subramaniam (Prospect, Ky.) and Jason Chodyniecki (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for enforcing consistency of data between disparate systems of a transportation network with verified transactions. Embodiments include receiving a transaction that is generated based on a command indicating an intent to transfer an asset from the originating hub to a destination hub. The generated transaction can include ...