US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 17 for "Cloud removal by illumination normalization and interpolation weighted by cloud probabilities" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,350, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cloud removal by illumination normalization and interpolation weighted by cloud probabilities" was invented by Peder Andreas Olsen (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Roberto De Moura Estevao Filho (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Leonardo de Oliveira Nunes (Rio de Janiero, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clouds in a satellite image are replaced with a prediction of what was occluded by those clouds. The cloudy portion of the image is interpolated from a series of satellite images taken over time, some of which are cloud-free in the target image's cl...