ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,914, issued on May 20, was assigned to Auterion AG (Zurich, Switzerland).
"System and method for software-defined drones" was invented by Lorenz Meier (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller for operating an autonomous vehicle includes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured measure specific forces acting upon the autonomous vehicle, and a flight controller configured to execute a high-speed control loop to periodically update commands to a plurality of control actuators for controlling a position or an attitude of the autonomous vehicle based on data from the IMU regarding the specific forces a...