ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,855, issued on July 15, was assigned to Vigillent Inc (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"AI-driven off-grid fire prevention system and method" was invented by Kevin Joseph Chandler (San Diego) and Christopher Corgan Troye (Brentwood, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for protecting an area from fire having one or more area fire prevention units capable of discharging fire suppressant via a directable nozzle, each fire prevention unit being communicatively coupled to a computing device which detects airborne firebrands, predicts their trajectories and final landing positions, and directs one or of the fire prevention un...