US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 22 for "Indoor navigation and obstacle avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,889, issued on April 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Indoor navigation and obstacle avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Chong Huang (Goleta, Calif.), Yibo Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Cheng Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Liu (Saratoga, Calif.), Kah Kuen Fu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Tianyang Ma (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial vehicle is configured to operate within indoor spaces. The aerial vehicle is programmed with positions of waypoints within three-dimensional space, and to calculate a trajectory for traveling through such waypoints in a manner that minimizes snap of...