US Patent Issued on Aug. 26 for "Autonomous forest fire detection, alerting and mitigation for communities" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,183, issued on Aug. 26.

"Autonomous forest fire detection, alerting and mitigation for communities" was invented by Rhea Rawat (Edison, N.J.) and Ritika Rawat (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments for an autonomous forest fire detection, alerting and mitigation device includes a subterranean data gatherer having a plurality of soil temperature and soil moisture sensors installed at a plurality of different depths in a soil. A data assimilator that has a configured threshold change depending on the plurality of different depths in the soil of the plurality of soil temperature and soil moisture sensors, the s...