US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 22 for "Automated vegetation management system" (North Carolina, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,291, issued on July 22, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Automated vegetation management system" was invented by Victoria Neuenschwander (Cary, N.C.) and Ann Perreault (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vegetation management system includes a computing system including a processor having an associated memory that is configured for implementing a vegetative modeler including an image analyzer and at least one 3-dimensional (3D) vegetation growth model. The vegetative modeler is for analyzing images of vegetation that is growing around electrical power lines of an electric utility inclu...