US Patent Issued to Structural Services on June 3 for "Drone systems and methods for assisting a crane operator" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,545, issued on June 3, was assigned to Structural Services Inc. (Bethlehem, Pa.).

"Drone systems and methods for assisting 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....