ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,715, issued on March 24, was assigned to Everguard Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Adaptive multimodal safety systems and methods for bridge crane safety" was invented by Sandeep Pandya (Irvine, Calif.), Sundeep Ahluwalia (San Diego), Changsoo Jeong (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Yong Wu (Cypress, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for managing safety of bridge cranes in an industrial environment. The system comprises: (a) a first real-time locating component for generating a first location data stream about a crane within the industrial environment; (b) a second real-time locating component for generating a secon...