US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on June 10 for "Systems and methods for area wide object dimensioning" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,309, issued on June 10, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc..

"Systems and methods for area wide object dimensioning" was invented by Kevin Detert (Fairmont, Minn.), Brian Hackett (Fairmont, Minn.), Eric Holland (Lake Crystal, Minn.) and Jeremiah Pluim (Fairmont, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an area wide object dimensioning system for an object in motion, such as mounted to a vehicle (e.g., a lift truck). One or more sensors (e.g., a radar system, an acoustic sensor, an image capture system, a LIDAR system, a microwave system, etc.) are located within the area to capture data corresponding ...