US Patent Issued to Alarm.com on May 13 for "Imaging controls for unmanned aerial vehicles" (Latvian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,996, issued on May 13, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).

"Imaging controls for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Agris Kipurs (Jelgava, Latvia), Ilja Nevdahs (Carnikava, Latvia) and Deins Egle (Riga, Latvia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for performing privacy-aware surveillance with a security camera drone. The drone obtains image data using an imaging device and processes the image data to detect an object external to the drone. In response to processing the image data, the drone determines multiple v...