Patents Assigned to Munich Reinsurance Company
  • Patent number: 10621674
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a network of multi-functional sensors; where, based on a quality insurance, each multi-functional sensor is positioned in, on, or in a vicinity of: a transported cargo and/or a cargo container, containing the transported cargo; where each multi-functional sensor is configured to measure particular transport-related condition, particular cargo-related condition, or both, to form cargo transport sensor data and wirelessly transmit it to a server that is configured to dynamically predict, based on the cargo transport sensor data, a predicted quality loss of the transported cargo, determine a current loss value of the transported cargo and cause one or more remedial actions that include instantaneously instructing to pay a payout amount to an owner of the transported cargo to compensate for the current loss value and/or transmitting a remedial instruction with an adjustment to the operation of one or more of a cargo transport, the cargo container, and a cargo s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Munich Reinsurance Company
    Inventors: Richard B. Jones, Stefan C. Froehlich, Ronald Kargl, Richard Walter Bridges, Christoph Kalinski, Veenet Muthraja