US Patent Issued to DISH Network on Nov. 18 for "Methods and systems for drone flightpath automation for site inspections" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,803, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Methods and systems for drone flightpath automation for site inspections" was invented by Christopher Ergen (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to methods and systems for drone flight path automation for site inspections. A user can operate a drone in a sequence around a site and capture data. The data is logged and used to generate an automated flight path, so that for future flights, the drone can fly an automated flight path along the same flight path sequence as the logged flight path and capture data of the site. Fo...