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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2024
Structural Services, Inc., Bethlehem, PA (US);
James T. Benzing, Bethlehem, PA (US);
William R. Haller, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Seth T. Slavin, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Marta Kasica-Soltan, Stroudsburg, PA (US);
Structural Services, Inc., Bethlehem, PA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure presents systems and methods for assisting a crane operator. An imaging system automatically images each building material object contained within a shakeout field on a construction site and processes the images to determine each object's identifying indicium and its geometric properties. These values are compared with a construction site database to ensure that all necessary building materials are present. A positioning device tracks, in real time, the location of the imaging system, the location of structural members within the shakeout field, and/or other important features of the job site, such as obstacles that the crane operator will need to avoid while lifting a structural member from its initial location to its destination location. Real-time images of the construction site, including indications of the next building material object to be hoisted and/or a path between the object's initial and final locations, can be generated to guarantee that the crane operator hoists the expected object to the expected location.