US Patent Issued to Manitowoc Crane Cos. on July 15 for "System for determining crane status using optical and/or electromagnetic sensors" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,763, issued on July 15, was assigned to Manitowoc Crane Cos. LLC (Milwaukee).

"System for determining crane status using optical and/or electromagnetic sensors" was invented by Stephen J. Schoonmaker (Chambersburg, Pa.), Matthew T. Oswald (Manitowoc, Wis.), Melisa Lavery (Chambersburg, Pa.), Frank C. Schnittker (Wuerzburg, Germany), John R. Rudy (Greencastle, Pa.) and Jared Yorke (Falling Waters, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crane includes a lower works having one or more ground engaging elements, an upper works connected to the lower works, the upper works having a boom, and a system for determining a crane status. The sys...