ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,219, issued on March 4, was assigned to Oshkosh AeroTech LLC (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Controlling devices in operations areas based on environmental states detected using machine learning" was invented by Grant Thomas (Spring, Texas) and Stephen C. Tatton (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system is provided that includes an edge computing device and at least one camera configured to obtain image data depicting at least a portion of an operations area. The edge computing device includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium that has a model data store and computer-executable instructions stored thereon....