US Patent Issued to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems AS on March 18 for "Alignment of independent visual navigation systems and methods" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,361, issued on March 18, was assigned to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems AS (Hvalstad, Norway).

"Alignment of independent visual navigation systems and methods" was invented by Jon Elvira Andres Lund (Hvalstad, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include tracking a current location of an unmanned device on a local map, receiving image data from an imaging sensor associated with the unmanned device, detecting a first remote device and outputting associated first detected object information, determining a first location of the detected first remote device on the local map, receiving first location information associ...