ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,363, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Firmatek Software LLC (San Antonio).
"Autonomous mission action alteration" was invented by Robert Parker Clark (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle includes a camera, one or more sensors, memory storing first instructions that define an overall mission, and memory storing one or more mission cues. The vehicle further includes one or more processors configured to execute a first part of the first instructions to perform a first part of the overall mission. The processors are configured to process at least one of the image data and the sensor data to detec...