ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,506, issued on May 12, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Method and system for detecting changes in areas" was invented by Runmin Cong (Jinan, China), Zifeng Qiu (Jinan, China), Wei Zhang (Jinan, China), Ran Song (Jinan, China), Liangbin Zhu (Jinan, China), Yu Chen (Jinan, China), Taoyi Chen (Jinan, China) and Xiaolei Li (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method and system for detecting changes in areas, comprising: acquiring images at different times of an area by low-altitude UAVs; extracting state features for each of backbone feature pairs; analyzing importance of each ...