US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on Jan. 28 for "Methods and systems for determining flight plans for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,346, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and systems for determining flight plans for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial vehicles" was invented by Quentin Lindsey (Canoga Park, Calif.) and Henry Thome Won (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for receiving, by a processor having addressable memory, data representing a geographical area for imaging by one or more sensors of an aerial vehicle; determining one or more straight-line segments covering the geographical area; determining one or more waypoints located at an end of each determine...