US 11,928,643 B2
Digital smart label for shipper with data logger
Bret Bollinger, Yorba Linda, CA (US); and Ben Lee, Corona, CA (US)
Assigned to Cryoport, Inc., Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by CRYOPORT, INC., Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 19, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/446,123.
Application 16/446,123 is a continuation in part of application No. 14/589,768, filed on Jan. 5, 2015, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/924,399, filed on Jan. 7, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2019/0303862 A1, Oct. 3, 2019
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/08 (2023.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2022.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06Q 10/083 (2023.01); G06F 16/53 (2019.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0838 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06F 16/53 (2019.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for managing shipping of a shipping container, comprising:
a web portal that monitors a shipping itinerary of the shipping container and a health of the shipping container according to at least one preselected criteria;
an electronic device affixed to the shipping container and in communication with the web portal and that stores a first electronic image file associated with the shipping itinerary;
a sensor inside the shipping container and providing the sensor data to the electronic device,
wherein the electronic device transmits the sensor data to the web portal,
wherein the web portal receives the sensor data corresponding to a temperature within the shipping container,
wherein the at least one preselected criteria comprises a preselected threshold temperature or temperature range;
an electronic shipping label in proximity to the electronic device, the electronic shipping label having:
a communication device for obtaining from the electronic device the first electronic image file stored on the electronic device;
a processor connected to the communication device and configured to:
obtain, from the electronic device and using the communication device, the first electronic image file stored on the electronic device, and
render the first electronic image file during the shipping itinerary,
wherein the electronic device is configured to:
determine a location of the electronic device,
determine a geo-fence surrounding a destination location of the shipping itinerary,
wherein the geo-fence surrounding the destination location comprises an area that is within a threshold distance of the destination location,
determine that the electronic device has entered, stopped in, and exited the geo-fence surrounding the destination location of the shipping itinerary based on the destination location and the location of the electronic device; and
provide a second electronic image file or a signal to the electronic shipping label to indicate to the electronic shipping label to change to the second electronic image file in response to the determining that the electronic device has exited the geo-fence surrounding the destination location; and
a display that visually displays the rendered electronic image file that is to be read by a laser device even if a power source that powers the display has failed.