US Patent Issued to THE WEATHER on Aug. 4 for "Location-based forecasting of weather events based on user impact" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,205, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to THE WEATHER COMPANY LLC (Brookhaven, Ga.).

"Location-based forecasting of weather events based on user impact" was invented by Rodney Thompson (Pelham, N.H.), Douglas George Dempster (Andover, Mass.), James John Politis (Windham, N.H.), Ronald Harris (Bedford, N.H.), Tanya Simkhovich (North Andover, Mass.) and Frederick Scott Eliot (Newbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system provides location-based weather services. Weather data is processed to determine one or more weather values for a location. The one or more weather values are compared to baseline weather data for the loc...