Route-Based Agriculture Exchange With Price-Time Queue Trading

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing agricultural systems and transportation networks lack efficient mechanisms to reduce transaction costs, ensure transparency and accountability, integrate security, and form virtual communities for agricultural units, leading to high costs, inefficiencies, and poor food quality, while current technologies fail to link agriculture and transportation units effectively.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that transforms agricultural units into geolocation-based objects with price-time priority queues, forming virtual communities along routes, enabling transparent marketplaces and secure, open-access trading of agricultural and transportation capacity units, using GPS, mobile computing, and blockchain technology to facilitate secure, efficient transactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If farmers drive to small, unorganized farmers markets, then local agriculture can be supported, but transaction costs and transportation costs become extremely high

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of agricultural transactionVSAvoidtransaction cost and transportation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines farmers markets with existing transportation routes (highways, roads, transit lines) to create integrated market locations. Instead of requiring farmers to travel to separate, distant market locations, the market is merged with the transportation route itself, allowing transactions to occur at convenient stop points along the farmer's existing travel path.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a route processor and market processor as intermediary systems that coordinate between farmers, consumers, and transportation providers. These intermediaries manage the complex logistics of route planning, market operations, and transaction processing, reducing the burden on individual farmers while lowering overall transaction costs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If large scale agribusiness is used, then high quantity production is achieved, but food quality deteriorates and transaction costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvequantity of agricultural productionVSAvoidfood quality

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the agricultural market into localized, route-based communities rather than large-scale centralized markets. By dividing the market into smaller, geographically-defined segments along transportation routes, farmers can maintain quality control while achieving volume through aggregation of multiple small-scale producers serving specific route communities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If traditional farmers markets are used, then local farming is supported, but the markets remain expensive due to high transaction costs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesupport for local agricultureVSAvoidtransaction cost

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a multi-functional system that combines transportation, commerce, and community engagement in a single integrated platform. The route-based market serves multiple functions: it provides transportation for farmers and consumers, facilitates transactions, builds community, and reduces costs through route optimization. This universality allows the system to support local agriculture while simultaneously reducing transaction costs through efficiency gains.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Stability of the object's composition

If farmers markets are defined by static places, then traditional market structure is maintained, but efficiency and accessibility are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemarket structure stabilityVSAvoidmarket efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the static, place-based market into a dynamic, route-based market that moves with transportation flows. Market locations are no longer fixed geographic points but are defined by moving transportation routes and stop points. This dynamic structure allows the market to adapt to changing transportation patterns, farmer routes, and consumer locations, significantly improving efficiency and accessibility while maintaining market stability through consistent route-based organization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12536586B2System and method for an agriculture exchange for agriculture units

Publication Date: 2026.01.27 CIRCLESX LLC

AI summary

Implementations of various methods and systems to transform agriculture units with two waypoints or a destination waypoint or a series sequence of waypoints into objects which have associated price—time priority queues for transformed agriculture units. The present disclosed invention relates to combining the concepts of objected oriented programming, market price queues, agriculture, navigation systems and social networking and transportation as a fungible asset class or agriculture linked to transportation as an open market.