US Patent Issued to Axis on March 17 for "Method and device for monitoring of a heap of material" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,230, issued on March 17, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and device for monitoring of a heap of material" was invented by Thomas Winzell (Lund, Sweden), Ann-Sofie Rase (Lund, Sweden), Jesper Bengtsson (Lund, Sweden) and Tuong Lam (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring a heap of material, comprises circuitry for executing a plurality of functions. A region of interest function, in a thermal video stream captured by a thermal video camera, defines a region of interest covering the heap of material. A reference spatial property setting function, from pixels within a video frame of the therm...