ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,215, issued on Sept. 29.
"Methods and systems for tracking wildfires using weather radar data" was invented by Neil P. Lareau (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus for providing timely and accurate estimates of the location and rate-of-spread of a wildfire. In some embodiments, a processor of a user device receives user defined polygon data estimating a perimeter of a wildfire and generates ellipse data fitting the polygon data. The processor also receives radar reflectivity data via a communication device from at least one weather radar, then determines, based on the radar reflectivity data and t...