ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,665, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for the collision-free movement of a crane" was invented by Johannes Benkert (Furth, Germany), Thomas Dobler (Hatzenbuhl, Germany), Julian Vogel (Erlangen, Germany) and Axel Walthelm (Buckenhof, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for a collision-free movement of a crane in a crane lane, a sensor captures a first training data set of raw data during a movement of the crane outside a crane operation in the crane lane. The first training data set is evaluated while teaching a first neural network based on the captured raw data and first training data ar...