US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Determining local wind variability for operations of aerial vehicles" (New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,764, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Determining local wind variability for operations of aerial vehicles" was invented by Marco Giovanni Giometto (New York) and Jeffrey Massey (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data captured by wind sensors installed at various locations in a region is processed to predict a wind value representative of wind flows within the region. One or more histograms of wind flows represented in the data are generated, and continuous probability distributions (e.g., Weibull distributions) are derived based on the histograms. The wind value may represent wind ...