ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,564, issued on April 22, was assigned to DEEP FORESTRY AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Method for preparing for harvesting of forest using an unmanned vehicle and un-manned vehicle and system using said method" was invented by Levi Farrand (Uppsala, Sweden), Erik Osterberg (Uppsala, Sweden) and William Johnsson (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for preparing for harvesting of forest using an un-manned vehicle (100) configured to move under the canopy in a forest region, the method comprising: for each of at least one object (110) within the forest region: -obtaining, using at least one se...