US Patent Issued to Florida Power & Light on March 31 for "Remote sensing for intelligent vegetation trim prediction" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,075, issued on March 31, was assigned to Florida Power & Light Co. (Juno Beach, Fla.).

"Remote sensing for intelligent vegetation trim prediction" was invented by Iliana M. Rentz (West Palm Beach, Fla.), Steve T. Jolly (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Barry Lynn Grubb (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Isaac Bentolila (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for predicting vegetation encroachment into a utility asset that includes a remote sensing controller that stores a set of 3D data characterizing a utility asset and vegetation in a digital twin database. The digital twin database stores 3D data characterizing the utili...