ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,168, issued on April 1, was assigned to AUTEL ROBOTICS Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Method for controlling lens module, aerial vehicle, and aircraft system" was invented by Zhaozao Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are a method for controlling a lens module, an aerial vehicle, and an aircraft system, wherein the method for controlling a lens module is applied to the aerial vehicle, the aerial vehicle is provided with a tripod head to mount the lens module thereon, and the method includes: acquiring model data of the lens module if the lens module is adapted to the aerial vehicle; determining a lens mode...