ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,305, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Cargo monitoring method" was invented by Konrad Feyerabend (Hannover, Germany), Sebastian Kuehne (Sarstedt, Germany) and Gafur Zymeri (Ronnenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting moving bodies or cargo parts inside a cargo space, including storing 3D data describing each measuring point of any bodies or cargo parts in the cargo space as a first data set and carrying out a further, subsequent three-dimensional measurement and storing the 3D data describing the corresponding measuring points of the bodies or cargo parts i...