The anniversary of the death of Col. John Stevens, III was yesterday, March 6. He was one of the earliest advocates of steam-powered transportation and railroad construction in the United States.
Stevens was an American lawyer, engineer and inventor who built the first U.S. steam locomotive and first steam-powered ferryboat, and began the first commercial ferry service in the United States from his estate in Hoboken, New Jersey. In addition, he was a key proponent of the creation of U.S....
FourKites, a global real-time supply chain visibility platform, announced Monday that the U.S. Patent Office has awarded the company a patent (U.S. Patent No. 11,1017,347) for its Smart Forecasted Arrival (SFA), which provides visibility to freight while in transit even if the truck or other mode of transportation lacks technology to transit location data.
In an interview with FreightWaves, Matthew Elenjickal, the founder and CEO of FourKites, explained how the patent illustrates the company’s...