ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,549, issued on May 19, was assigned to Technosylva Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Catastrophic wildfire index for forecasting utility-caused wildfires" was invented by Pavel Aleksandrovich Grechanuk (Portland, Ore.), Adrian Cardil Forradellas (Binefar, Spain), Steven Craig Vanderburg (Camas, Wash.), Santiago Daniel Monedero Timon (Madrid) and Joaquin Ramirez Cisneros (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service inputs wind data and utility data corresponding to a utility component into a first machine learning model to determine an outage risk prediction representing a probability that the utility component will have an outag...