ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,175, issued on May 13, was assigned to Versatile Natures Ltd. (San Francisco).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for monitoring lift events at a construction site includes: deriving a lifting profile from a first timeseries of load values, output by a load sensor coupled to a crane hook, during a first time period; deriving an oscillation characteristic from a first timeseries of motion values, output by a motion sensor co...