US 12,332,643 B2
Virtual fencing of a contaminated area
Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Visakhapatnam (IN); Shailendra Moyal, Pune (IN); Akash U. Dhoot, Pune (IN); and Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/651,282.
Prior Publication US 2023/0259126 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01)
CPC G05D 1/0027 (2013.01) [B64U 10/13 (2023.01); G01N 33/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/0094 (2013.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); B64U 2201/20 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, the computer-implemented method comprising:
retrieving, by one or more computer processors, historical incident data and real-time data associated with a contaminated site;
evaluating, by the one or more computer processors, the historical incident data and the real-time data associated with the contaminated site to predict a future incident at the contaminated site;
determining, by the one or more computer processors, a first deployment of a plurality of unmanned vehicles to form a first virtual fence around the contaminated site based on the predicted future incident, wherein the first deployment of the plurality of unmanned vehicles to form the first virtual fence, wherein the first virtual fence includes a thickness of the virtual fence, wherein the thickness is determined by an amount of population in a vicinity to the contaminated area;
determining, by the one or more computer processors, instructions for the first deployment of each of the plurality of unmanned vehicles to form the first virtual fence around the contaminated site;
sending, by the one or more computer processors, the instructions to form the first virtual fence around the contaminated site to each of the plurality of unmanned vehicles; and
removing, by the one or more computer processors, pathogens under the plurality of unmanned vehicles utilizing lasers to raise surface temperature, wherein the pathogens are viral outbreaks.