US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Oct. 6 for "Utility line localization from aerial images" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,527, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Utility line localization from aerial images" was invented by Yueyang Ying (New York City, N.Y.), Kyle Julian (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Louis Dressel (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for localizing utility lines includes capturing aerial images of a ground area below a UAV; recording a position of the UAV when capturing the aerial images; detecting a presence of an object in the aerial images suspected to be a utility line; identifying two offset pixel points in each of the aerial images that coincide with the object in each aer...