ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,882, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AIDash Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying hazard trees" was invented by Pranav Prakash (San Jose, Calif.), Akshay Patil (San Jose, Calif.) and Ankur Saxena (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identifying hazard trees is described. An example method includes receiving multiple images for a geographic area that includes multiple electrical assets of a power distribution infrastructure. Pixels of the multiple images are classified as hazard tree pixels or as non-hazard tree pixels using one or more convolutional neural networks. Multiple polygons are gener...