ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,659, issued on Sept. 16.

"Method of acquiring and processing autonomous aerial vehicle data" was invented by Tin Fares El (Montreal), Christian Alexander Patience (Mont-Royal, Canada), Meyer Nahon (Montreal), Inna Sharf (Montreal), Farhad Rahbarnia (Monteal, Canada) and Alexandre Borowczyk (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of acquiring and processing autonomous aerial vehicle data comprising obtaining past flight data from an autonomous aerial vehicle; storing the data in a database; conducting netto-variometer calculations to obtain equations to normalize the data; using a filtering technique to...