ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,337, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intelligrated Headquarters LLC (Mason, Ohio).

"LiDAR based monitoring in material handling environment" was invented by Delbert A. Joseph (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring an operation in a material handling environment is described. The method can include obtaining a data stream representative of a 3D-scan of a target area based on an output from a LiDAR based sensor. Further, the method can include obtaining operational specification data. The operational specification data can include, data related to a standard operating procedure (SOP) and a pre-defined heur...