ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,105, issued on June 24, was assigned to Versatile Natures Ltd. (San Francisco).

"Method for monitoring lifting events at a construction site" was invented by Barak Cohen (San Francisco), Meirav Oren (San Francisco), Danny Hermann (San Francisco), Ran Oren (San Francisco) and Omer Cohen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for tracking lift events at a construction site includes: accessing a timeseries of load values output by a weight sensor, coupled to a crane hook, and a first geospatial location of the crane hook during a first time period; deriving a lifting profile at the first geospatial locat...