US Patent Issued to DroneDeploy on Aug. 12 for "System and methods for improved aerial mapping with aerial vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,429, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DroneDeploy Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and methods for improved aerial mapping with aerial vehicles" was invented by Jonathan James Millin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nicholas Pilkington (Santa Clara, Calif.), Devin Lane (Santa Clara, Calif.), Christopher Sullivan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael Winn (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for image generation, preferably including: generating a set of mission parameters for a UAV mission of the UAV associated with aerial scanning of a region of interest; controlling the UAV to perform the mission; generating an image...