ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,208, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CARLISLE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS LLC (Carlisle, Pa.).

"System of measuring objects in an environment" was invented by Karan Paresh Patel (Gallatin, Tenn.), Hamilton Ross Hughes (Park Hills, Ky.), James Brian McGlade (Blue Bell, Pa.), William Douglas Johnson (Marietta, Ga.), Anthony Wentzel (North Hollywood, Calif.), Noah Dawson Underwood (Atlanta), Randall Marc Bachtel (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Michael Allan Sloan (Roswell, Ga.), Jason Lye (Atlanta), Peter Wyndham Shipp Jr. (Woodstock, Ga.) and Taylor Kopacka Leigh (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device can include a bar; a dynamic...