US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park on Nov. 4 for "Vehicle-based anomaly detection using artificial intelligence and combined environmental and geophysical sensor data" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,273, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Vehicle-based anomaly detection using artificial intelligence and combined environmental and geophysical sensor data" was invented by Daniel P. Lathrop (University Park, Md.), Heidi Myers (Greenbelt, Md.) and Vedran Lekic (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Geophysical anomalies in an area or region can be detected, characterized, or otherwise mapped using a combination of environmental and geophysical sensor data acquired using a vehicle, which may be a remotely operated or autonomously controlled unmanned vehicle. Anomalies are d...