US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "Automated hazard recognition using multiparameter analysis of aerial imagery" (New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,373, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated hazard recognition using multiparameter analysis of aerial imagery" was invented by Levente Klein (Tuckahoe, N.Y.), Wang Zhou (White Plains, N.Y.), Harini Srinivasan (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Amit Kumar Pandey (Greensboro, N.C.) and Estepan Meliksetian (Westchester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes identifying a tree type of vegetation depicted in an image. The embodiment segments that portion of the image using edge-detection processing resulting in a contour line that defines a tree perimeter. The embodiment d...