ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,634, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Osmose Utilities Services Inc. (Peachtree City, Ga.).
"Systems and methods for utility pole loading and/or clearance analyses" was invented by Mark E. Messenger (Peachtree City, Ga.), Randal K. More (Lafayette, N.Y.) and John Ware (Peachtree City, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a lidar system, a camera system, and a computing device. The computing device can receive lidar data from the lidar system, receive camera data from the camera system, execute object recognition process(es) to identify, from the camera data, a utility pole and components attached to the utility pole...