US Patent Issued to KONECRANES GLOBAL on Feb. 24 for "Determining position of a container handling equipment" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,353, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KONECRANES GLOBAL Corp. (Hyvinkaa, Finland).

"Determining position of a container handling equipment" was invented by Ville Mannari (Hyvinkaa, Finland) and Jussi Lehtio (Hyvinkaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising detecting a reflector unit that comprises a plurality of reflector elements arranged in a pre-determined manner with respect to each other, identifying the reflector unit based, at least partly, on its characteristics, and determining a location of a container handling equipment based, at least partly, on the identified reflector unit."

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