US Patent Issued to X Development on July 28 for "Systems and methods for minimizing wildfire ignition risk" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,308, issued on July 28, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for minimizing wildfire ignition risk" was invented by Matthew L. Ginsberg (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, there is provided a method performed by one or more data processing apparatus for mitigating wildfire ignition, the method including: obtaining first data identifying utility lines in a geographical region, obtaining second data characterizing operational and environmental factors related to the utility lines in the geographical region, determining a probability score that characterizes the likeliho...