US Patent Issued to X Development on April 29 for "Wildfire identification in imagery" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,455, issued on April 29, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Wildfire identification in imagery" was invented by Eliot Julien Cowan (Atherton, Calif.), Avery Noam Cowan (Atherton, Calif.) and Akshina Gupta (Warren, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying wildfire in satellite imagery. In some implementations, a server obtains a satellite image of a geographic region and a date corresponding to when the satellite image was generated. The server determines a number of pixels in the satellite image that are ...