US Patent Issued to X Development on March 17 for "Inferring electric grid asset characteristics using photogrammetry" (California, Colorado, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,827, issued on March 17, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Inferring electric grid asset characteristics using photogrammetry" was invented by Xinyue Li (San Mateo, Calif.), Kshitij Naresh Nikhal (Lincoln, Neb.), Kari Anne Klein (Boulder, Colo.) and Ananya Gupta (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for identifying characteristics of electric grid assets are disclosed. A method includes obtaining a plurality of images, each image depicting at least one utility pole of an electric grid; detecting, in each of the...