US Patent Issued to Insurance Services Office on Dec. 30 for "Computer vision systems and methods for hazard detection from digital images and videos" (Utah, California, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,905, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Insurance Services Office Inc. (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Computer vision systems and methods for hazard detection from digital images and videos" was invented by Jared Dearth (Lehi, Utah), Matthew David Frei (Lehi, Utah), Samuel Warren (Salt Lake City), Ravi Shankar (Fremont, Calif.) and Vahid Meimand (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer vision systems and methods for hazard detection from digital images and videos are provided. The system obtains media content indicative of an asset, preprocesses the media content, and extracts, based at least in part on one or more feature extracto...