ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,504, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HEXAGON GEOSYSTEMS SERVICES AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Computer implemented method for identifying transparent and/or mirroring plane candidates and UAV using the same" was invented by Pascal Gohl (Winterthur, Switzerland), Andreas Jager (Zurich, Switzerland), Lukas Schmid (Zurich, Switzerland) and Pascal Strupler (Ennetbaden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer implemented method for identifying transparent and/or mirroring plane candidates from measurement data resulting from scanning an environment by a laser scanner emitting distance measuring lig...