ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,432, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Concirrus Ltd. (London).

"Damage detection based on images with varying resolutions" was invented by Ira Scharf (Newton, Mass.), Xiang Wen (Westwood, Mass.), Feng Pan (Belmont, Mass.) and Paul Cummer (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method for detecting damage in a geographical area that includes receiving a first image of the geographical area, with the first image having a first resolution, and detecting damage to at least one object appearing in the first image in response t...