ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,915, issued on May 20, was assigned to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC (Vancouver, Canada).
"Collision detection and avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicle systems and methods" was invented by Ahmed Elhossini (Walterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for UAV collision detection and avoidance are provided. A UAV may include a camera configured to capture a stream of images of a scene, the stream of images including a first frame and a second frame captured after the first frame. The UAV may further include a logic device configured to identify an object in the stream of images, perform a depth estimation be...