ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,041, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).
"Method for monitoring a loading area" was invented by Konrad Feyerabend (Hannover, Germany), Sebastian Kuehne (Sarstedt, Germany) and Gafur Zymeri (Ronnenberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a loading area, in which the interior of the loading area is three-dimensionally measured by at least one distance-measuring, depth-aware sensor, including storing as a first data set 3D data describing each measurement point of three-dimensional surfaces bordering the loading area, and 3D data describing each measurement point ...