US Patent Issued to Altec Industries on Oct. 14 for "Virtual barriers for remotely operated equipment" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,995, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Virtual barriers for remotely operated equipment" was invented by Jonathan Westin Sykes (Gower, Mo.), Timothy J. Mourlam (Shawnee, Kan.) and Robert Nichols (Saint Joseph, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for establishing and utilizing virtual barriers for remotely operated equipment. Remotely operated equipment may be used to perform operations within a remote operating environment based on control inputs from an operator at a distinct location from the remote operating environment. The virtual barriers a...