ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,042, issued on March 17, was assigned to Oshkosh AeroTech LLC (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Event recognition systems and methods" was invented by Mark T. Thompson (League City, Texas) and Stephen C. Tatton (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event recognition system includes one or more processing circuits including one or more memory devices and one or more processors. The one or more memory devices are configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: execute an algorithm that receives image data as an input and recognizes a first equipment object and...