ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,186, issued on May 26, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method of identifying a vessel, a vessel identifying device and a floating object and land installation comprising a vessel identifying device" was invented by Rickard Lindkvist (Vasteras, Sweden) and Jonas Linder (Mellerud, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying a vessel as well as a vessel identifying device and a floating object and land installation including such a vessel identifying device. The vessel identifying device includes a processor operative to obtain a position of a vessel being sensed by a sensor, assign an identity to ...