ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,801, issued on June 17, was assigned to AIDash Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying trees and estimating tree heights and other tree parameters" was invented by Shantanu Rajora (Fremont, Calif.) and Nitin Das (Haryana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving georeferenced satellite images of a geographic region that includes electrical assets. Segmentation maps are generated by providing the georeferenced satellite images to fully convolutional networks to classify pixels of the georeferenced satellite images as either trees or non-trees. Rasters of the geographic region are ...