US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on March 18 for "Systems and methods for acoustic process monitoring and control" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,438, issued on March 18, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"Systems and methods for acoustic process monitoring and control" was invented by Edward F. Houston (Bristow, Va.) and Manfred Foxx-Gruensteidl (Amissville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a content management system for customizing and controlling data distribution, data items can be customized and dispersed to disparate reception terminals according to various control mechanisms where they can convey relevant information to local or remote stakeholders. Data items can be integrated into existing data distribution structures in real time accor...