ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,931, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to China Jiliang University (Hangzhou, China).

"Autonomous environmental perception, path planning and dynamic landing method and system of unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Wensong Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Zai Luo (Hangzhou, China), Linzhen Shi (Hangzhou, China), Jie Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Li Yang (Hangzhou, China), Minyue Li (Hangzhou, China), Yaru Li (Hangzhou, China), Dian Bian (Hangzhou, China) and Yaxiong He (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous environmental perception, path planning and dynamic landing method includes: obtaining three-dimensional environmen...