US Patent Issued to New York University, New York University in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 20 for "Artificial intelligence-based autonomous alert system for real time remote fire and smoke detection in live video streams" (American, Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,953, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to New York University (New York) and New York University in Abu Dhabi Corp. (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"Artificial intelligence-based autonomous alert system for real time remote fire and smoke detection in live video streams" was invented by Prabodh Panindre (Weehawkin, N.J.), Shantanu Acharya (Jersey City, N.J.), Kalidindi Nanda Kishore (Jersey City, N.J.) and Sunil Kumar (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State-of-the-art object detection algorithms (e.g., EfficientDet, Faster-RCNN, and YOLO) and their variants are integrated into an end-to-end IoT cloud-ba...