US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University, Salt River Project on June 3 for "Systems and methods for autonomous vision-guided object collection from water surfaces with a customized multirotor" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,427, issued on June 3, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.) and Salt River Project (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for autonomous vision-guided object collection from water surfaces with a customized multirotor" was invented by Wenlong Zhang (Chandler, Ariz.), Shatadal Mishra (Tempe, Ariz.), Danish Faraaz Syed (Tempe, Ariz.) and Michael Ploughe (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a vision-guided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system to identify and collect foreign objects from the surface of a body of water are disclosed herein. A vision syste...