ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,451, issued on July 22, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).
"Integrated logistics ecosystem" was invented by Alison Frankowski Turner (Arlington, Va.) and Farah Bandukwala (Herndon, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The integrated logistics ecosystem is a hybrid system for creating datasets and services that are utilized in a logistics network. This system provides an inventory of data objects, access layers, and services which perform across various tenants of the system. These tenants may be made up of several architectural components such as transportation management, freight payment, integrated GPS, transp...