US Patent Issued to Pictometry International on Oct. 27 for "Roof condition assessment using machine learning" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,021, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Roof condition assessment using machine learning" was invented by Shadrian Strong (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for roof condition assessment from digital images using machine learning are disclosed, including receiving an image of a structure having roof characteristic(s), first pixel values depicting the structure, second pixel values outside of the structure depicting a background surrounding the structure, and first geolocation data; generating a synthetic shape image of the structure from the image usi...