Patent ID: 11875284
Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 19:
20. A system comprising:
multiple monitoring units associated with different designated areas, each of the monitoring units comprising:
an imaging device configured to generate image data depicting one or more mobile assets that move through the respective designated area of the different designated areas;
a communication device; and
one or more processors configured to be operably coupled to the imaging device and the communication device and to analyze the image data generated by the imaging device to detect one or more non-alphanumeric graphic identifiers of a particular mobile asset of the one or more mobile assets, each of the one or more non-alphanumeric graphic identifiers representing a feature that differentiates the particular mobile asset from at least some of the other mobile assets that move through the respective designated area without individually uniquely identifying the particular mobile asset, the one or more processors configured to generate a detection message for communication by the communication device, the detection message including the one or more non-alphanumeric graphic identifiers and associating the one or more non-alphanumeric graphic identifiers with the particular mobile asset, and

an asset control system including one or more processors and configured to receive the detection message and compare the one or more non-alphanumeric graphic identifiers to information in an inventory database associated with each of multiple identified assets to positively identify the particular mobile asset as a first identified asset of the multiple identified assets based on a level of match between the one or more non-alphanumeric graphic identifiers and the information in the inventory database associated with the first identified asset.