ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,694, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AIDash Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method of intelligent vegetation management" was invented by Rahul Saxena (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nitin Das (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Abhishek Vinod Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising receiving a first set of aerial images of a geographic area, receiving locations of assets, determining a likely location of at least one asset within each image, creating one or more bounding boxes, encompassing the likely location of one or more assets within each of the images, providing any number of the images to a convolution...