ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,488, issued on June 17, was assigned to MOTION METRICS INTERNATIONAL CORP. (Vancouver, Canada).
"Method, apparatus and system for monitoring a condition associated with operating heavy equipment such as a mining shovel or excavator" was invented by Shahram Tafazoli Bilandi (Vancouver, Canada), Mahdi Ramezani (Vancouver, Canada), Saman Nouranian (Vancouver, Canada), Kenneth Smith (Vancouver, Canada), Sahar Ghavidel (Vancouver, Canada) and Mohammad Sameti (Coquitlam, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer processor implemented method and system for monitoring a condition associated with operating heavy equipment is disclosed....