ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,936, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for object detection" was invented by Brent Barnhart (Van Wert, Ohio), Jeremy Koppenhaver (Botkins, Ohio) and Herb Hollinger (Mt. Vernon, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provided herein include systems and methods for object detection in an environment. One embodiment of a system includes a vehicle with a wireless communication receiver for receiving communication from a wireless communication transmitter that is placed on a first object and a computing device that includes a memory component and a processor. The mem...