ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,966, issued on July 7, was assigned to DEVON ENERGY Corp. (Oklahoma City).

"Systems, methods, and computer program products for image analysis" was invented by Beau Travis Rollins (Oklahoma City), Amos James Hall (Sparks, Okla.), Jared Lee Markes (Edmond, Okla.) and Steven Boyd Jackson II (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image analytics systems, methods, and computer program products to autonomously analyze an image to identify and detect features in the image, such as the horizon, and/or identify and detect objects of interest therein, such as, smoke or possible smoke. The image is captured, for example, by RGB cameras, and dep...