US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for detecting blight and code violations in images" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,632, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).

"Systems and methods for detecting blight and code violations in images" was invented by Erik Barry Johnson (Northport, Ala.) and Brendan August Moore (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for blight and code violation detection is provided. The system includes a machine learning model that is trained using photographs of properties that are associated with blight and code violations and photographs that are not associated with blight and code violations. A fleet of vehicles, such as trash trucks, are equ...