US Patent Issued to Swiss Reinsurance on Aug. 11 for "Drone-based, airborne sensory system for flood elevation and flood occurrence probability measurements and return periods by proxy measurements and method thereof" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,882, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Drone-based, airborne sensory system for flood elevation and flood occurrence probability measurements and return periods by proxy measurements and method thereof" was invented by Anup Kumar Roy (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone-survey measurement-based inundation probability forecast and flood hazard vulnerability measuring system and method. Location-specific elevation data are measured by drones of the measuring system, the measured location-specific elevation data being transmitted to an inundation engine for forecas...