US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 21 for "Leo satellite-based forest fire prediction and mitigation" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,930, issued on April 21, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Leo satellite-based forest fire prediction and mitigation" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Subha Basu (Howrah, India), Sourav Banerjee (Konnagar, India) and Shaik Mohammed Gouse Basha (Lansdale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for predicting and mitigating forest fires based on low earth orbit (LEO) satellites is provided. The embodiment may include receiving historical LEO satellite images of a forested region. The embodiment may also include identifying a geographical area and a boundary of the geo...