ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,244, issued on May 27, was assigned to AUTEL ROBOTICS Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Target state estimation method and apparatus, and unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Jinxin Huang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes: obtaining a target image acquired by the camera apparatus, and performing image recognition on the target image, to obtain a target image region of a target in the target image; obtaining a raw point cloud of a surrounding environment of the UAV, and obtaining a first target location according to the target image region and the raw point cloud; obtaining attitude information of th...