ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,155, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PIKE ENTERPRISES INC. (Mount Airy, N.C.).

"System for collecting and analyzing equipment telematic data" was invented by J. Eric Pike (Lewisville, N.C.), Cliff Edwards (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Will Crouch (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for collecting and analyzing equipment telematic data typically includes a processor, a memory, and an analysis module stored in the memory. The analysis module is typically configured for: receiving telematic data from a piece of equipment; parsing the telematic data to identify (i) location information and (ii) usage information f...