ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,966, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SitePro Inc. (Lubbock, Texas).

"Mobile surveillance unit" was invented by Aaron Phillips (Lubbock, Texas), Greg Stout (Lubbock, Texas) and David Bateman (Lubbock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a surveillance system, including: a trailer having wheels, a mast, and a trailer towing coupler; a camera coupled to the mast; a cellular modem communicatively coupled to the camera and operative to transmit video captured by the camera; a command center server operative to remotely receive and store data describing operation of a fluid-handling device and to receive the transmitted vid...