ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,795, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Autonomous path planning" was invented by Maxime Marie Christophe Gariel (San Francisco), Marc Alain Lecerf (San Mateo, Calif.), Evan Michael Wilson (San Francisco), Allen David Wu (Dublin, Calif.) and Anne-Claire Le Bihan (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes selecting a landing waypoint on a runway and selecting a starting waypoint based on a location/heading of an aircraft relative to the runway. The method includes selecting additional waypoints between the starting waypoint and the landing waypoint. The starting and additi...