US Patent Issued to Treeswift on Aug. 25 for "Method for detecting and responding to conditions within a forest" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,557, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Treeswift Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Method for detecting and responding to conditions within a forest" was invented by Michael Shomin (Philadelphia), Steven Chen (Philadelphia) and James Paulos (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: detecting a first location of a user carrying a mobile pack proximal a first scan zone; accessing a first sequence of images representing trees in the first scan zone; characterizing a first coverage density of the first scan zone based on visual features detected in the first sequence of images; in response to the first coverag...