US Patent Issued to Google on July 1 for "Autonomous aerial imaging and environmental sensing of a datacenter" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,373, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autonomous aerial imaging and environmental sensing of a datacenter" was invented by Joseph Neil Reichenbach (Snoqualmie, Wash.) and Cedric Del Richard Chenal (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for autonomous aerial imaging and environmental sensing of a datacenter. In one aspect a method includes executing, within a datacenter and by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in data communication with a server, a connectivity-enabled navigation process to colle...