US Patent Issued to GE Aviation Systems on July 8 for "Systems and methods for providing a trajectory planning engine for unmanned aircraft" (Michigan, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,486, issued on July 8, was assigned to GE Aviation Systems LLC (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for providing a trajectory planning engine for unmanned aircraft" was invented by Szabolcs A. Borgyos (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Vineet Mehta (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Kenneth Stewart (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for trajectory planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle. A mission specification for fulfillment by an unmanned aerial vehicle is received. The mission specification identifies a waypoint, an optimization criterion, and information identifying the unmanned aerial vehicle. It is determi...