ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,755, issued on May 27, was assigned to Wisetech Global (Licensing) Pty Ltd (Alexandria, Australia).
"Vessel tracking" was invented by James Balajan (Sydney), Thomas Shafron (Sydney) and Tobias Daullary (Sydney).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a data-driven approach to departure detection. In particular, the disclosed approach uses location data, such as GPS, which is readily available for many vessels globally and historically through the automatic identification system (AIS). The approach clusters this data and then constructs a convex hull around these clusters for each port to define a port area. A vessel is...