ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,136, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MOTION METRICS INTERNATIONAL CORP. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Monitoring an operating cycle of heavy equipment" was invented by Saman Nouranian (North Vancouver, Canada), Seyed Mehran Pestehei (Vancouver, Canada), Vibudh Agrawal (Vancouver, Canada), Fatemeh Taheri Dezaki (Vancouver, Canada), Samareh Samadi Arakhsh Bahar (North Vancouver, Canada), Muzhi Tang (Coquitlam, Canada), Glen Richard Floyd Turner (Richmond, Canada) and Shahram Tafazoli Bilandi (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for monitoring operations of heavy equipment having an operating imp...