ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,739, issued on June 30, was assigned to Fortress Wildfire Insurance Group LLC.

"System and method for wildfire risk assessment, mitigation and monitoring for building structures" was invented by John Wall (Frankford, Del.) and Michael O'Dell (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a system and method for wildfire loss assessment for a building structure, or a set of building structures, comprising obtaining a building structure dataset; receiving, by a computer system, computer-readable input data regarding one or more fuel sources, in the proximity of the building structure location, that may cause the building stru...