Systems for linking object identification data to package identification data
CA 2817913 C · Owner: United Parcel Service Of America, Inc. · Inventors: Peters, Robert Michael; Nonneman, Robert V.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Senders (15) ship products (21) in packages (13) to receivers (17) via a carrier (19). The carrier's computer system (2) receives data (23) identifying objects (20) associated with the products (21) and data (27) identifying the packages (13) links the two, and stores same in a database (29). The object (20) can be defined to be a product (21) package (13), or group of packages or objects. As the packages (13) progress through the carrier's transport and storage network (18) they pass through one or more portals (9) and are scanned to generate event data (31) transmitted to the computer system (2) for storage with the linked data to provide status information regarding the products (21) in …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed July 12, 2004 and granted December 12, 2023. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 12, 2024.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 12, 2026.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.