ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,507, issued on April 15, was assigned to ANSCHUTZ GMBH (Kiel, Germany).
"System for detecting a man-overboard event" was invented by Michael Delfs (Kiel, Germany), Hinrich Kahl (Kiel, Germany), Werner Lindner (Kiel, Germany), Bernhard Steuernagel (Kiel, Germany), Oliver Welzel (Kiel, Germany), Markus Werner (Kiel, Germany) and Michael Wessel (Kiel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting a man-overboard event, comprising a plurality of first computing units having at least one optical sensor with a predetermined detection range and a second computing unit connected to the plurality of computing units, characteriz...