ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,660, issued on June 17, was assigned to Eagle View Technologies Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).
"Navigating unmanned aircraft using pitch" was invented by Frank D. Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.), Matthew Finn (Burnsville, Minn.) and Glenn Wallace (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for navigating unmanned aircraft to capture images a consistent distance from a surface of a structure, such as a roof, are disclosed, including a system comprising a computer system having one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable medium, the processor(s) executing instructions to cause the one or more...