ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,292, issued on July 15, was assigned to VoltSense Inc. (Vallejo, Calif.).

"System and method for predictive foliage impingement and wildfire management using generative adversarial network" was invented by Dinesh Prasanna (Vallejo, Calif.), Sunny Gupta (Daly City, Calif.), Joseph J. Tavormina (Incline Village, Nev.), John Armanini (Vallejo, Calif.), Shah Monemzadeh (Vallejo, Calif.) and Robert Philip Eisenberg (Boynton Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system and method are disclosed for identifying anomalies relating to distribution power line disturbances and faults indicative of foliage impingement and potent...