US Patent Issued to Applied Research Associates on March 17 for "System and method for determining the geographic location in an image" (North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,772, issued on March 17, was assigned to Applied Research Associates Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"System and method for determining the geographic location in an image" was invented by Dirk B. Warnaar (Raleigh, N.C.) and Lance E. Besaw (Avon Lake, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and media for determining a list of geographic location candidates from an image of an environment are described. Open-source data indicative of the Earth's surface may be obtained and compared with images obtained from online sources. The images may be automatically analyzed using a plurality of modular convolution neural networks to determined pr...