US Patent Issued to Inventus Holdings on Nov. 3 for "Roof segment identification for solar project design" (Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,442, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Inventus Holdings LLC (Juno Beach, Fla.).

"Roof segment identification for solar project design" was invented by Chen Wang (Jupiter, Fla.), Dane M Mckoy (Coral Springs, Fla.) and Ty J Brockhoeft (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In several aspects, an image of a roof, an elevational image of the roof, and a mask image of the roof are accessed. Next, the mask image is applied to the elevational image of the roof to create a set of coordinate points that denote the portion of the roof. Using a machine learning model, a set of roof segment contours is created for each roof segment in the...