US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado on Feb. 10 for "Detecting and forecasting solar flares" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,320, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Detecting and forecasting solar flares" was invented by Larisza D. Krista (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for forecasting when solar flares will occur and identifying their possible locations creates a mask to analyze an image of a solar disk. The system also creates an intensity histogram using the solar disk. Additionally, the system stores a resulting full-disk image and a sub-image identifying possible flare signature sites. Further, the system applies a method to filter out false positive detections by using an equat...