US Patent Issued to Marathon Petroleum on April 7 for "Systems and methods to determine vegetation encroachment along a right-of-way" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,151, issued on April 7, was assigned to Marathon Petroleum Co. LP (Findlay, Ohio).

"Systems and methods to determine vegetation encroachment along a right-of-way" was invented by Luke R. Miller (Findlay, Ohio), Joshua J. Beard (Findlay, Ohio) and Brittan Battles (Findlay, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods to determine vegetation migration encroachment along a right-of-way associated with an underground feature are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method may include capturing images of one or more sections of the right-of-way at a selected time period. The method may include georeferencing the imag...