ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,459, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BAREWAYS GMBH (Lubeck, Germany).

"Method and system for determining a condition of a geographical line" was invented by Sascha Klement (Lubeck, Germany), Florian Hartmann (Lubeck, Germany) and Stefan Matlage (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of determining one or more conditions, of a geographical line, GL, or its surroundings. The method comprises: acquiring geo-referenced earth observation data representing one or more spatially overlapping imagery layers covering from an aerial or space perspective a specific region of interest, ROI, of the Ear...