US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on June 9 for "Interface for digitization and detection of rip currents within optical imagery by way of a fuzzy set" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,370, issued on June 9, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Interface for digitization and detection of rip currents within optical imagery by way of a fuzzy set" was invented by Corey Maryan (Bush, La.), Christopher Michael (Covington, La.), Steven Dennis (Covington, La.) and Sarah Trimble (New Orleans).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying a rip current that includes receiving an image comprising a body of water, and identifying, in the image an estimated location of a rip current associated with the body of water, wherein the i...