US Patent Issued to Florida Power & Light on Sept. 1 for "Assessment of utility components using airborne remote sensing" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,993, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Florida Power & Light Co. (Juno Beach, Fla.).

"Assessment of utility components using airborne remote sensing" was invented by Mackenzie Vecchio (Boca Raton, Fla.), Eric D. Schwartz (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Jackson A Beebe (Juno Beach, Fla.), John P. Cannon (Mangonia Park, Fla.) and Paul R. Hynes (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that reduces the time needed to identify infrastructure that has been damaged due to a storm, earthquake, or other event. At a high level, the presently claimed invention includes the following steps. Step 1: Assigned airborne respons...