US Patent Issued to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER on March 18 for "Facility surveillance systems and methods" (Swiss, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,752, issued on March 18, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Facility surveillance systems and methods" was invented by Bernhard Metzler (Dornbirn, Austria), Barbara Haupt (Walzenhausen, Switzerland), Markus Kachele (Walzenhausen, Switzerland), Bernd Reimann (Heerbrugg, Switzerland), Stefan Martin Benjamin Gachter Toya (St. Gallen, Switzerland) and Alexandre Heili (Altstatten, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for surveillance of a facility including facility elements. The system includes a central computing unit providing a digital model of the facility providing to...