US Patent Issued to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems on Feb. 4 for "Landing systems and methods for unmanned aerial vehicles" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,902, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC (Vancouver, Canada).

"Landing systems and methods for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by James Infanti (Waterloo, Canada), Albert Pegg (New Dundee, Canada) and Tomi Kanninen (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to landing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving a UAV on a surface of a landing platform. The method may further include operating a positioning device disposed under the surface to locate the UAV. The method may further include operating the positioning devi...