ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,242, issued on March 25, was assigned to Structural Services Inc. (Bethlehem, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for verifying building material objects" 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 pr...