US Patent Issued to HELIOS POMPANO on July 8 for "System and method for detecting high-risk lightning strikes for use in predicting and identifying wildfire ignition locations" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,920, issued on July 8, was assigned to HELIOS POMPANO INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"System and method for detecting high-risk lightning strikes for use in predicting and identifying wildfire ignition locations" was invented by Tamas Kereszy (Pompano Beach, Fla.) and Istvan Kereszy (Pompano Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting in real-time high risk lightning (HRL) strikes and sending out alerts to responsible personnel to allow for earlier responses to lightning caused fire ignitions to help maintain and/or reduce the chance of spread by the wildfire. The system and method allow for HRL events and ...