ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,868, issued on July 28, was assigned to Outrider Technologies Inc. (Henderson, Colo.).

"Automated yard inventory" was invented by Justin Abel (Brighton, Colo.), Brook Thomas (Brighton, Colo.), Daniel McCoy (Brighton, Colo.), Tron Vo (Brighton, Colo.), Gabe Netty (Brighton, Colo.), Martin Gaudreault (Brighton, Colo.), Philippe Ferriere (Brighton, Colo.), Harrison Magee (Brighton, Colo.), Elizabeth Gilmour (Brighton, Colo.), Artem Kozlov (Brighton, Colo.), Jason Khadka (Brighton, Colo.) and Kathleen A. Mahoney (Brighton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tractor has a processor and memory storing machine-readable instructions that...