ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,502, issued on March 17, was assigned to Utopus Insights Inc. (Valhalla, N.Y.).

"Weather-driven multi-category infrastructure impact forecasting" was invented by Fook-Luen Heng (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Zhiguo Li (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Stuart A. Siegel (Millburn, N.Y.), Amith Singhee (Bangalore, India) and Haijing Wang (Valhalla, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for resource management are described. The method includes selecting trouble regions within the service area, generating clustered regions, and training a trouble forecast model for the trouble regions for each type of dam...