ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,510, issued on July 1, was assigned to Structural Services Inc. (Bethlehem, Pa.).
"Systems and methods for guiding a crane operator" was invented by James T. Benzing (Bethlehem, Pa.), William R. Haller (Bethlehem, Pa.), Seth T. Slavin (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Marta Kasica-Soltan (Stroudsburg, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents systems and methods for assisting a crane operator. An imaging system automatically images each building material object contained within a shakeout field on a construction site and processes the images to determine each object's identifying indicium and its geometric properties. Thes...