US Patent Issued to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems on Sept. 16 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle search and rescue systems and methods" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,710, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC (Vancouver, Canada).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle search and rescue systems and methods" was invented by Ahmed Elhossini (Waterloo, Canada) and Fei Yu (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) search and rescue operations are provided. A UAV may include a camera configured to capture one or more images of a search area. The UAV may include at least one logic device configured to calculate a flight pattern for searching the search area, receive a target image, and analyze the one or more images of the sea...